This is a joint media release between the Australian Federal Police and New South Wales Police Force, Queensland Police Service and Victoria Police. Editor’s note: Vision from the arrests is available via Hightail A well-known criminal marketplace offering access to stolen account credentials and compromised device information has been shut down following an international investigation led…
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Hackers leak 16,000 Tas documents on dark web
The Fortra/GoAnywhere incident also affected Tasmanian school children. Emily Woods reports: Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their…
Money Message ransomware gang claims MSI breach, demands $4 million
Bill Toulas reports: Taiwanese PC parts maker MSI (Micro-Star International) has been listed on the extortion portal of a new ransomware gang known as “Money Message,” which claims to have stolen source code from the company’s network. MSI is a global hardware giant that makes motherboards, graphics cards, desktops, laptops, servers, industrial systems, PC peripherals,…
NL: Software supplier Nebu ordered by court to provide more information about data breach
There is a significant update to a breach at Nebu software that may have impacted millions of Dutch people. As reported previously, Blauw took Nebu to court, seeking an injunction to require Nebu to provide more information on the breach. The hearing was yesterday, and the court issued an order. NU.nl reports (machine translation): ……
Customers of Winnipeg’s Thermea spa alarmed after notification of significant data breach
Ozten Shebakheget reports: The parent company of a popular luxury spa in Winnipeg is in hot water after a data breach potentially opened the door for hackers to access a variety of private information from customers. This week, customers who purchased gift certificates from Thermea spa between early November and late February were told in an…
OCR Labs denies breach report details, patches vulnerability
Chris Burt reports: A vulnerability allegedly exposing sensitive credentials of Australian financial institutions has been closed by OCR Labs, after being discovered and disclosed by Cybernews researchers. The biometric liveness detection API used by OCR Labs is among the exposed data, according to the report. OCR Labs takes issue with details in the report, however, telling Biometric Update that the…