Novinite reports: The Ransomhouse hacker group has claimed responsibility for stealing data from the Supreme Administrative Court’s information systems. The group published documents, including lists of employee names, personal data, and leave applications, as evidence of the breach, according to cybersecurity website Questona. Along with the leaked documents, the hackers addressed the court’s management with a message urging them to make contact….
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Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider
Iain Thomson reports: HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what’s claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom is paid. Previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capital, HCRG runs child and…
Major IVF provider Genea suffers ‘cyber incident’ (1)
Update: On February 24, 2025, the Termite ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack on Genea. On their darkweb leak site, they claim to have ~700gb of data from company’s servers such as confidential, personal data of clients. They posted a number of screenshots with patient records as proof of claims. ACS Information Age…
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter from Breda, a city in the southern…
Dutch Police seizes 127 XHost servers, dismantles bulletproof hoster
Bill Toulas reports: The Dutch Police (Politie) dismantled the ZServers/XHost bulletproof hosting operation after taking offline 127 servers used by the illegal platform. Earlier this week, the authorities in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, announced sanctions against the same bulletproof hosting provider for its involvement in cybercrime operations. Specifically, the operators of Zservers were accused of…
Kuwait busts large-scale cyber attacks
Ramadan Al Sherbini reports: Kuwait has foiled large-scale cyber attacks targeting telecommunication towers and banks in the country. The Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said an international ring of Chinese nationals had been arrested over involvement in the attacks. The case surfaced after authorities received reports from some telecommunications companies and banks that their networks were subjected…