Tatsuki Matsuura reports on what sounds like it might be a ransomware attack. Here’s a machine translation of how the report begins: Kokikai Yasue Hospital (Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture) announced on July 4 that the personal information of patients and new Corona vaccine vaccinated patients may have been leaked up to 111,991 due to unauthorized…
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Hackers claim police information stolen in China’s biggest data breach
The Bharat Express News reports: Unknown hackers have claimed to have stolen data on up to a billion Chinese residents after hacking into a Shanghai police database, in what industry experts are calling the world’s biggest data breach. cybersecurity in the country’s history. The person or group claiming the attack has offered to sell more…
British Army to Investigate Crypto Scam Hack on its Twitter, Social Media—Possessed NFT Appears
Isaiah Richard reports: The British Army faced a recent intrusion on its social media platforms, including Twitter and YouTube, where it posted several information that led to a cryptocurrency scam as its platforms got hacked. The government agency from Great Britain is launching an investigation to identify the culprits behind it, as it managed a…
Dutch Uni Gets Cyber Ransom Money Back… With Interest
AFP reports that because the value of BTC had increased dramatically, a ransomware victim wound up getting back a small fortune when they recovered the bitcoin they had paid. The southern Maastricht University in 2019 had paid 200,000 euros ($208,000) in bitcoins to attackers who had encrypted hundreds of Windows servers and backup systems. But the…
Iranian hackers leak info of over 300,000 Israelis from tourism sites
There’s more emerging about the Sharp Boys’ group attack on Israeli tourism sites. The Jerusalem Post now reports: The personal information of over 300,000 Israelis was leaked last month by an Iranian hacker group targeting Israeli travel booking sites. The group, named Sharp Boys, claimed last month that it had obtained data from Israeli tourism sites,…
Norway hit with cyberattack, temporarily suspending service
Ines Kagubare reports: Norway’s public and private sector websites were temporarily down on Wednesday following a cyberattack that targeted the country’s national data network, forcing it to suspend online services for several hours. Sofie Nystrøm, head of the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM), said a criminal pro-Russian group seemed to be behind the hacks, adding…