LONDON, Ky. – A Somerset, Ky., man, Jesse Kipf, 39, was sentenced to 81 months on Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to his plea agreement, Kipf intentionally accessed a computer without authorization and then obtained information from a protected computer for his own private gain and…
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Top US oilfield firm Halliburton hit by cyberattack, source says
Liz Hampton reports: U.S. oilfield services firm Halliburton (HAL.N) on Wednesday was hit by a cyberattack, according to a person familiar with the matter. Halliburton said it was aware of an issue affecting certain systems at the company and was working to determine the cause and impact of the problem. The company was also working with “leading…
National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords
Brian Krebs reports: New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its…
How many times has Carespring Health Management been attacked since last year? (1)
In October 2023, Carespring Health Care Management was the victim of a ransomware attack. It was not announced on its website, but in November, Carespring was listed on the NoEscape ransomware gang’s site. At the time, the threat actors claimed they had encrypted Carespring’s files and exfiltrated 364 GB of files. The incident never appeared…
National Public Data reports highly publicized breach affected a total 1.3 million people
There has been a lot of publicity about a breach and then leak of data from National Public Data. Some early reports erroneously claimed that 2.9 billion people were affected. Other sources noted more accurately noted that 2.9 billion was the number of records and not the number of unique individuals. In its disclosure to…
NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data
Brian Krebs reports: On July 21, 2024, denizens of the cybercrime community Breachforums released more than 4 terabytes of data they claimed was stolen from nationalpublicdata.com, a Florida-based company that collects data on consumers and processes background checks. The breach tracking service HaveIBeenPwned.com and the cybercrime-focused Twitter account vx-underground both concluded the leak is the same information first put up for…