(translation from WDR): The city of Paderborn’s ‘Lernstatt’ network has become the target of a major hacker attack. The cyber attack paralyzed numerous mail accounts and web conferences. On Friday morning there were around 20 million accesses in just under half an hour, mainly to mail traffic and web conferences. 17,000 student and 2000 teacher…
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Exmo crypto exchange suffers hack, halts all withdrawals
Helen Partz reports: Exmo, a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in the United Kingdom, has suffered a major security breach causing the platform to freeze all withdrawals. According to a Dec. 21 security notice, Exmo detected suspicious withdrawal activity on Monday, with large amounts of major coins like Bitcoin (BTC) leaving the platform’s hot wallets. Read more on…
Unsecured Azure blob exposed 500,000+ highly confidential docs from UK firm’s CRM customers
Gareth Corfield reports: A business app developer’s unsecured Microsoft Azure blob left more than half a million confidential and sensitive documents belonging to its customers freely exposed to the public internet, The Register can reveal. Information contained in the blob included occupational health assessments, insurance claim documents from US firms underwritten by Lloyds of London, and…
FR: Services in Évreux and the agglomeration shut down after cyberattack
Laurent Philippot reports that the City of Evreux and the Évreux Portes de Normandie became victims of a ransomware attack about a week ago. At the present time, they locked down their systems to keep the attacker out, but that means that phones and internet are degraded or not working at this time. The mayor…
In wake of horrific Vastaamo breach, Finnish government tables laws to protect data from cyber criminals
Gerard O’Dwyer reports: The huge data security breach and cyber-ransom attack at Finland’s Vastaamo Psychotherapy Centre has provoked a swift response from the government, which is primed to introduce more rigid laws and measures to protect the country’s databases and sensitive information from cyber criminals. […] In a significant bolstering of Finland’s data security laws,…
IN: Telangana Government Site Flaw Exposed Sensitive Data of All Its Employees, Pensioners; Fixed Only After Three Months
Jagmeet Singh reports: Telangana state government took over three months to protect sensitive details of its employees and pensioners from its website. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) confirmed the vulnerability and replied on email in September to say that the authorities had been intimated about the issue, and Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan…