Reporting this via a Google translation of an article originally published in French. Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports: The brand provides its affiliates with Linux software allowing them to maintain complete control over the data stolen from their victims. The file is called “storage_linux_x64.” It is an executable for Linux. It is among the data of two…
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JP: Yakuza Helpline Leak Sparks Fears for Victim Safety
Here’s today’s reminder that it’s not always the huge-number breaches that pose the most risk or actual physical danger to people. Anosha Shariq reports: A helpline for Yakuza victims faces a shocking data breach, exposing personal details of 2,500 individuals and sparking fears of retaliation and safety risks. A tragic irony has unfolded as the…
Cyberattack at French hospital exposes health data of 750,000 patients
Bill Toulas reports: A data breach at an unnamed French hospital exposed the medical records of 750,000 patients after a threat actor gained access to its electronic patient record system. A threat actor using the nickname ‘nears’ (previously near2tlg) claimed to have attacked multiple healthcare facilities in France, alleging that they have access to the patient…
Thames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claim
Anna Isaac reports: “The software we use is older than me, and some of the hardware is older than my dad,” says Siddharth*. He is one of a team fighting a daily battle to sustain ancient IT infrastructure at Thames Water. Sometimes the defences are breached. Thames, the UK’s largest water and waste treatment company,…
Turkey fines Amazon’s Twitch 2 million lira for data breach
Canan Sevgili of Reuters reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com’s gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. KVKK launched an investigation after a 125 GB data leak. It found that Twitch had failed to take adequate security measures beforehand, addressing…
Authority: Up to 300k people impacted in City of Helsinki’s massive data breach
YLE News reports: The Safety Investigation Authority of Finland (Otkes) is continuing an investigation of a massive data breach that targeted the City of Helsinki last spring. Otkes said investigators have already collected more than 90 percent of the data involved in the exceptionally large-scale breach. The City first announced news of the breach in the spring….