Reports concerning an incident involving Nova Scotia Health Employees’ Pension Plan (NSHEPP) in Canada are part of the Accellion breach that has been in the news since January. NSHEPP has posted a number of notices and updates on their site. It is not yet confirmed whether their data was actually exfiltrated by the attackers or…
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American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000
The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a hacking incident. On January 29, AAFMAA became aware of suspicious activity on its system. Their investigation revealed that an unauthorized party had first gained access to certain…
Hackers obtain sensitive data on UK aid projects overseas
Ben Quinn reports: Hackers have obtained sensitive documents relating to British aid projects, including details related to projects funded by a secretive national security fund. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and experts from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of GCHQ, are investigating how a “third party” came to obtain the data. Read…
Right-wing militants furious after data leak exposes their involvement in paramilitary group
Travis Gettys reports: The data leak from the American Patriots Three Percent website revealed the names, phone numbers and photographs of members — who ranged in age from their 20s to 70s and were drawn from a variety of backgrounds — that were obtained by activists who posted the information on an internet archiving site, reported The…
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows
Jason Wilson reports: A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents. But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad…
GabLeaks: Claims by Gab Refuted by DDOSecrets.com
Not surprisingly, extremists appear to have made some false claims about a hack and data dump involving the far-right platform known as Gab. Rather than repeat their claims — claims that include blatantly bigoted language — DataBreaches.net provides the statement by public interest group DDOSecrets.com: Distributed Denial of Secrets provided a pre-release copy of the…