Zack Whittaker reports: Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake. The nonprofit, founded by Jordan’s Queen Rania and headquartered in the kingdom’s capital, was set up in 2013 to promote education across the Arab region. The…
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What goes around comes around: hackers leak other hackers’ data online
Group1B reports: Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and current balance. In addition to user…
A first in Canada: Class action over loss of personal information dismissed on the merits
Stéphane Pitre, Anne Merminod, Alexandra Hebert, Alexis Leray of BLG Law Firm write: On March 26, 2021, the Superior Court rendered a landmark judgment dealing with the loss of personal information, Lamoureux c. OCRCVM, 2021 QCCS 1093. Madam Justice Florence Lucas, J.C.S. dismisses the class action filed by the plaintiff, Danny Lamoureux in its entirety in…
Life Sciences Industry Becomes Latest Arena in Hackers’ Digital Warfare
Kate Goodwin reports: A global pandemic has left life sciences companies with giant targets on their backs for cyberattacks. As of December, at least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., U.K. and South Korea working on COVID-19 treatments were targeted by North Korean hackers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The hackers were out for sensitive…
TR: Adim Adim hacked
The following is not a great translation, so what you need to know is that a volunteer Turksih organization that promotes charitable donations through events like marathons, was hacked. From Adim Adim’s web site: Volunteers In Pursuit of Goodness and Their Donors Who Are With Them At Every Step … As we have informed you…
Lot-et-Garonne firefighters victims of a cyber attack
LaDepeche.fr reports (translation): After the hospitals, the firefighters! Without faith or law, wherever they work, from France or abroad, the new IT thugs have no mercy by now attacking vital emergency and health services in our region. country. The Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have had a bitter experience since the start of the week. “We were victims of a” ransomware…