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…
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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…
CISA Alert (AA22-181A): MedusaLocker
CISA Alert: (AA22-181A) #StopRansomware: MedusaLocker Summary Actions to take today to mitigate cyber threats from ransomware: • Prioritize remediating known exploited vulnerabilities. • Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. • Enable and enforce multifactor authentication. Note: this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders…
Updating: Breach reports from Eye Care Leaders’ clients continue to add up
As June drew to a close, DataBreaches’ little notepad tabulations indicate that we already have reports from 32 entities impacted by the Eye Care Leaders breach last December. Readers may recall that ECL’s myCare Integrity platform was reportedly accessed by an unauthorized individual who deleted some of the databases before being detected. As far as…
Wegmans hit with $400,000 data-breach penalty
Marcia Greenwood reports a follow-up to a data leak initially reported in June 2021: Wegmans Food Markets has been hit with a $400,000 penalty for exposing the personal information of more than 3 million customers chainwide, including more than 830,000 New Yorkers, the New York State Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday. In a statement, the…
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…