Earlier today, Maze Team added Prince Edward Island (PEI) to their website where they list victims who have refused to pay their ransom demands. As they have done in other cases, the attackers also provided some files that they exfiltrated as proof. In looking into this attack, DataBreaches.net found that PEI had issued a statement…
Category: Non-U.S.
Irish IT group Ergo foils major ransomware attack
Charlie Taylor reports: Irish IT services group Ergo is forecasting further growth as it reported revenues of €85.2 million last year as the company said it recently foiled a major ransomware attack. Ergo said it immediately moved to lock down servers late last Wednesday after becoming aware of a serious security incident. It was able to recover…
Ca: LifeLabs files petition to keep cyberattack report from B.C. privacy commissioner
Andrew Weichel reports: The B.C.-based laboratory testing company that was targeted in a cyberattack last fall is trying to keep the province’s privacy commissioner from accessing a third-party report on the breach. In a petition filed this month in B.C. Supreme Court, LifeLabs argued it shouldn’t have to turn over a report prepared by cybersecurity…
BGR India’s data hacked, shared on hacking forum: Report
IANS reports: Hackers have reportedly compromised tech company BGR’s (Boy Genius Report) India website and dumped its data containing emails, hashed passwords and other information on the Dark Web. According to data breach monitoring service ‘Under the Breach’, hackers shared SQL databases from unsecured AWS (Amazon Web Services) buckets and one archive belongs to the…
PH: ‘Comeleak’ hacker cleared of cybercrime charges in largest hack in Philippine history
Nikka G. Valenzuela reports: A Manila court has dismissed the cybercrime case against an information technology graduate who was charged in connection with the hacking of the Commission of Elections (Comelec) website in 2016—the biggest private data leak in Philippine history. Paul Loui Biteng was cleared of criminal charges after the prosecution failed to prove…
Hackers shut down Rwandan government data centre
James Barton reports: A Rwandan data centre that hosts servers related to the country’s government has been brought offline by hackers. The centre, which also hosted private sector servers, was left offline for hours by a cyber attack on 18th February which blocked it from receiving traffic. This resulted in the majority of government websites –…