Micah Lee and Michael Sherrard report: Liberty Counsel, an evangelical Christian nonprofit that provided a brief cited by the Supreme Court in its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, has been hacked, revealing a 25-gigabyte internal database that contains nearly seven years’ worth of donor records. The hacker, who identifies with the Anonymous movement, released…
Category: U.S.
Schools in Texas, Pennsylvania, and California hit with ransomware as schools reopen for the year
One lesson that should have been learned from past years is that ransomware groups will attack schools right as they get ready to open for the school year because districts may feel more pressured to pay so they can open. So far this week, DataBreaches has spotted ransomware attack reports on two k-12 school districts…
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies
By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside, CNN Business Portraits by Sarah Silbiger for CNN Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive…
Today’s reminder to read email alerts and acknowledge them…
Yesterday, Chum1ng0 spotted a forum listing that affects a regional office in the Illinois k-12 education system. DataBreaches reached out to that regional office by email yesterday morning to alert them. Emails were sent to multiple people, including the Superintendent and head of IT. The emails provided them with specific information from the listing. Did…
Transparency #FAIL: Why won’t Anthem/Elevance Health answer a simple question about breaches?
A DataBreaches opinion piece. You might think a giant insurer like Anthem, which has experienced at least several breaches over the years — including one of the most significant breaches ever — would understand the importance of transparency by now. Apparently not. On May 24, Anthem (now known as Elevance Health) posted a notice on…
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation notifies staff, visitors, and incarcerated individuals of breach
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) issued a breach notification this week. Because the notification mentions COVID-19 testing, at first, DataBreaches thought it was the incident CDCR had disclosed last month, but no, it turns out that that was a different incident. The newly revealed breach affects staff, visitors, and others tested for…