On September 2, the NoEscape ransomware group added Mulkay Cardiology Consultants to their leak site and claimed to have successfully encrypted them. “We have 60GB of confidential and personal data on more than 30,000 patients, scans, doctor’s conclusions about patients and many other confidential information,” they claimed in their listing about the New Jersey medical…
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Outage at Canadian airports was from a DDoS attack
La Press reports (automatic machine translation follows): The widespread breakdown of border terminals in Canadian airports on Sunday, claimed by a group of pro-Russian hackers, was indeed the result of a computer attack. This would thus be a rare case, if not the first, where such an assault has real impacts on the country’s infrastructure, according…
“I’m Not Pro-Russia and I’m Not a Terrorist!” —- InfraGard and Airbus Hacker “USDoD” Unveils His New Campaigns
The first time DataBreaches remembers hearing about the man who calls himself “USDoD” was when he posted a sales listing for member data from InfraGard. He had not only managed to acquire data on 80,000 members of an organization dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure, but his revelation of his method exposed some embarrassingly inept security…
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery notification — and what it doesn’t tell the patients.
On July 17, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat had added the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery (BHPS) to their dark web leak site. The June listing was updated to include photos that appeared to be proof of claims about their access to the clinic’s files. The doctors did not respond to DataBreaches’ inquiries in July, but on…
He’s smart, he’s an accomplished liar, and now Impotent says he’s retired.
Sometimes people surprise me. “Impotent” did. He’s gone by a number of usernames online over the past few years. “Everyone knows me under many different aliases. Let’s actually call me mainly Pulpo. I also used ‘Creeper, ‘Impotent,’ ‘Kmeta,’ ‘KmetaNaEvropa,’ and ‘Promise,’ but on my markets, I was usually just ‘Admin.’ The main identities I love…
Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to $1.25 Million Business Email Compromise Scam Impacting U.S. Company
WASHINGTON – Onwuchekwa Nnanna Kalu, 39, a Nigerian National from Rivers State, Nigeria, pleaded guilty today to stealing $1.25 million from an investment firm located in Boston, through a business email compromise (“BEC”) scam. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist, of the FBI Washington Field…