The Office of Inadequate Security
HCF Management manages a variety of healthcare facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including assisted living, rehabilitation services, long-term care, and hospice services. They are a for-profit organization. On October 29, 2024, RansomHub added HCF Inc. to its leak site with a claim that they had exfiltrated 250 GB of files. Their listing did not specifically…
Meredith Bond reports: Student information for those who attended Toronto District School Board as far back as 1985 may have been compromised by a cyber incident that happened in December 2024. On Jan. 8, the TDSB sent a letter to parents explaining the incident involving the PowerSchool software, which is used by many boards across…
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving U.S. Army soldier in December to a massive theft of U.S. phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year. Authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius, a U.S. Army communications specialist, in Texas on December 20 following a brief two-page grand jury indictment accusing the U.S….
This article by Alexander Castro originally appeared in Rhode Island Current on January 10, 2025 and is republished here under Creative Commons License. It was updated to replace several paragraphs in the “Slow Leak” section to include a response Deloitte sent the author post-publication. Rhode Island’s online public benefits system appears to be a fortress…
Brian Krebs reports: Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea….
Threat actors’ leak site unreachable due to DoS attack; DataBreaches given exclusive preview of leak Marc Fortier reports: The hackers behind a major cyberattack that hit the State of Rhode Island’s online system for delivering health and human service benefits have released some residents’ files to a site on the dark web, state officials announced Monday. “Unfortunately,…