The following is a translation of a press release from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Education Department that appears at https://www.bs.ch/nm/2021-allgemeine-gewerbeschule-ags-wird-ziel-eines-professionellen-hackerangriffs-ed.html: All of the school’s servers are currently unavailable, so no data can be accessed. To ensure that school starts on Monday, a temporary WLAN network was activated, the data center isolated and the host systems shut…
Category: Non-U.S.
AT: Nah&Frisch Wieser Türnitz hit by ransomware attack
Gila Wohlmann reports (translation): “Due to cyberattacks and blackmail, we will probably be closed from Wednesday, April 7th.” This note has been hanging on Georg Wieser’s Türnitzer “Nah & Frisch” market for the past few days. “We just wanted to inform our customers, the EDP is now taking care of rectification,” he confirms the incident…
Another French hospital hit by cyberattack
Mathieu Ferri reports (translation): The phone no longer answers at the Saint-Gaudens hospital (Haute-Garonne). According to information from France Bleu Occitanie, the Comminges-Pyrénées hospital center has been the victim of a computer attack since around 4 a.m. , this Thursday, April 8, which greatly disrupts its operation. A ransom demand has been presented, explains the…
Education nonprofit Edraak ignored a student data leak for two months
Zack Whittaker reports: Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake. The nonprofit, founded by Jordan’s Queen Rania and headquartered in the kingdom’s capital, was set up in 2013 to promote education across the Arab region. The…
La Ville de Vallauris Golfe-Juan impacted by cyberattack
La Ville de Vallauris Golfe-Juan has become a victim of a cyberattack that impacted their mal servers. It was reported on the city’s official Facebook page . Translation: The city of Vallauris Golfe-Juan was the victim, last night, of a cyber attack on the town hall’s mail servers. As a precaution and security measure, all servers…
North Korean Hackers Threatened Bithumb Exchange With a $16M Ransom Amid the 2017 Data Breach, Says Report
Felipe Erazo reports: A new report commissioned by the U.S. secret services unveiled what happened behind the attack launched by North Korean hackers against a South Korean crypto exchange. The case is about a breach on June 29, 2017, which exposed data tied to over 30,000 customers stemming from Bithumb. Hackers Threatened to ‘Destroy’ Data…