Morgan Cook reports: Jewish Family Service of San Diego, a prominent nonprofit aid organization, exposed thousands of messages, some with identifying information from people seeking help with everything from paying rent to escaping abusive relationships. The social-services charity, which helps people in crisis regardless of their faith, learned of the data breach Monday night, after…
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Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas Notice of Security Incident
This morning’s reminder that it’s not just HIPAA covered entities or business associates that may be exposing your medical information to a breach. Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas (“VOACC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small number of email accounts in its computer environment. The phishing email incident resulted in unauthorized access to…
MA: Home for the Little Wanderers starts notifying people while still investigating breach
Here we go… an entity that isn’t waiting until its investigation is totally complete to begin notifying. I love it! BRIGHTON, Mass., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Home for the Little Wanderers (“The Home”) is providing notice of a recent data security event. On or about December 28, 2020, The Home became aware of usual activity within an…
Update: Dutch research funding agency, paralyzed by ransomware attack, refuses to pay up
Martin Enserink reports: Hackers published a batch of internal documents from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on the dark web yesterday, after the agency refused to pay up in a ransomware attack. The attack, which began on 8 February, has completely knocked out the agency’s grant application and review process and cut off…
Cleveland – Ohio, CMHA: Doppel Paymer ransomware publishes first stolen data
Marco De Felice (@amvinfe) reports: On February 10, the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority was one of the latest victims of a cyber attack by Doppel Paymer. The group of cybercriminals wasted no time and yesterday uploaded the first exfiltrated documents to their site in the Tor network. According to a statement made by a spokesperson for CMHA, the…
Nigerian Influencer Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas Laundered Funds For North Korean Hackers, Says U.S. Department Of Justice
David Dawkins reports: New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle. In July, Abbas was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles with conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from ‘“business email compromise”’ (BEC) frauds and other…