Ananya Bhattacharya reports: The disruptions to Microsoft’s services earlier this month were indeed the result of hacks, the software giant has admitted. In a blogpost Friday (June 16), the Redmond, Washington-based tech behemoth attributed the “surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability” to the “ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks…
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BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data
As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16. There was no…
US Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims
Reuters reports: WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday. The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the…
Oregon DMV, Louisiana OMV warn residents of MOVEit data breach
Both the Oregon and Louisiana departments of motor vehicles have become victims of the MOVEit hack and millions of drivers and vehicle owners have had their personal information stolen. Onur Demirkol reports that the Oregon DMV fell prey to the MOVEit hack: An estimated 3.5 million driver’s license and identity card details were exposed when…
Snooping in Medical Records by Hospital Security Guards Leads to $240,000 HIPAA Settlement
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, a not-for-profit community hospital located in Yakima, Washington resolving an investigation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). OCR investigated allegations that several security guards from Yakima Valley Memorial…
Russian National Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Commit LockBit Ransomware Attacks Against U.S. and Foreign Businesses
The Justice Department today announced charges against a Russian national for his involvement in deploying numerous LockBit ransomware and other cyberattacks against victim computer systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (АСТАМИРОВ, Руслан Магомедовичь), 20, of Chechen Republic, will make his initial appearance later today. “This Lockbit-related arrest, the second…