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Adafruit discloses data leak from ex-employee’s GitHub repo

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Dissent

Ax Sharma reports: Adafruit has disclosed a data leak that occurred due to a publicly-viewable GitHub repository. The company suspects this could have allowed “unauthorized access” to information about certain users on or before 2019. Based in New York City, Adafruit is a producer of open-source hardware components since 2005. The company designs, manufactures, and sells electronics…

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Malware now using stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are using stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates to sign malware to appear trustworthy and allow malicious drivers to be loaded in Windows. […] After Lapsus$ leaked NVIDIA’s code-signing certificates, security researchers quickly found that the certificates were being used to sign malware and other tools used by threat actors. According to samples…

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PA: Fleetwood Area School District hit by ransomware

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Dissent

WFMZ reports: Officials at a school in Berks County said their computer systems were attacked by ransomware. Fleetwood Area School District Superintendent Greg Miller sent a letter to families and staff Friday afternoon informing them that technical difficulties experienced on Wednesday morning were the result of a ransomware attack. Read more at WFMZ.

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Crossroads Health of Lake County discloses breach affecting former Beacon Health patients

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Dissent

It’s not a huge breach in terms of numbers compared to other breaches we’ve seen, but an incident reported by Crossroads Health in Ohio caught my eye because once again, it was old (legacy) data that was accessed and exfiltrated. In an undated statement on their website, Crossroads explains that an unauthorized party gained access…

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The Puerto Rican Organization to Motivate, Enlighten, and Serve Addicts (PROMESA) discloses 2020 data breach

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Dissent

Is there anyone who thinks this timeline/delay to notification is just fine?  On July 17, 2020, Acacia determined that an unauthorized person gained access to certain employee email accounts for a limited time between June 6, 2020 and June 12, 2020. Their investigation was inconclusive as to whether anyone accessed the emails and attachments in…

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PA lawmaker wants state to review entire process that led to company’s contact tracing data breach

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Dissent

Rick Earle reports: A state lawmaker has requested the auditor general review the entire process that led to the awarding of that $30 million contract with Insight Global to do contact tracking in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Jason Ortitay, a Republican from Bridgeville, told Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle that this may be the only way…

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