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Illinois Department of Human Services phishing attack affected more than 1.1M public assistance clients

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Dissent

Their substitute notice, as published on Effingham Radio: Springfield, IL-(Effingham Radio)- Pursuant to the requirements of the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), 815 ILCS 530/12, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is notifying the media of an incident within IDHS State of Illinois email accounts: On April 25, 2024, IDHS experienced a privacy breach….

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Credential phishing attacks up over 700 percent

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Dissent

Ian Barker reports: Phishing remains one of the most significant cyber threats impacting organizations worldwide and a new report shows credential theft attacks surged dramatically in the second half of 2024, rising by 703 percent. The report from SlashNext shows that overall, email-based threats rose by 202 percent over the same period, with individual users receiving…

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Alleged ShinyHunters member returned to France after prison in the U.S., now facing French charges

Posted on December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 by Dissent

On January 9, 2024, DataBreaches reported that French national Sébastien Raoult had been sentenced in a Seattle federal court, but might be out in 11 months.  As a suspected member of ShinyHunters, Raoult (aka “Sezyo Kaizen”) had been extradited to the U.S. after being detained in Morocco on his way home to France from a…

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JP: Yakuza Helpline Leak Sparks Fears for Victim Safety

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dissent

Here’s today’s reminder that it’s not always the huge-number breaches that pose the most risk or actual physical danger to people. Anosha Shariq reports: A helpline for Yakuza victims faces a shocking data breach, exposing personal details of 2,500 individuals and sparking fears of retaliation and safety risks. A tragic irony has unfolded as the…

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Grand Forks Public Schools Loses $2.2M to Phishing Scam

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Dissent

Joshua Irvine reports: The business manager of Grand Forks Public Schools said Monday the $2.2 million swindled from the district earlier this year was taken in a phishing scheme. […] In the four days leading up to the Sept. 13 fraud event, the district’s business office made more than a thousand payments, according to records…

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5 Alleged Members of Scattered Spider Charged Federally (1)

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Dissent

LOS ANGELES – Law enforcement today unsealed criminal charges against five defendants who allegedly targeted employees of companies nationwide with phishing text messages and then used the harvested employee credentials to log in and steal non-public company data and information and to hack into virtual currency accounts to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The following…

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