Jerome Garcia reports: Dotty’s, a company that runs some 120 gaming venues in Nevada, has reportedly suffered a data breach. Owned by Craig Estey and his Nevada Restaurant Services (NRS) company, it seems that Dotty’s was the victim of a cyberattack related to malware earlier this year. Dotty’s data breach was first unveiled last week by Vital Vegas, a website run by Scott…
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More than four months after DarkSide attack, Guess notifies individuals of breach
In April, DataBreaches.net reported a chat with DarkSide threat actors. As part of that report, this site noted that Guess, the well-known clothing and accessories retailer, had been attacked in February and listed on the DarkSide threat actor’s dedicated leak site. DataBreaches.net had looked at the proof of claim that DarkSide had posted and described…
HHS warns entities; patients file potential class action lawsuit over PACS breach
HHS recently issued an alert about a known vulnerability allowing access to some picture archiving communications systems (PACS). The vulnerability had been reported two years ago, and again months later, and there had been updated alerts since then. HHS is advising entities to address this as a priority now if they have not done so…
Ten Long Island Residents Charged in Nationwide Identity Fraud Scheme
From the Law Firm Newswire: Thirteen people and three corporations were charged on a 108-count indictment in relation to a nationwide synthetic identity fraud scheme that netted over $1 million from financial institutions. Authorities believe the defendants also amassed a credit limit of hundreds of millions of dollars across the United States. The scam’s alleged…
Mint Mobile hit by a data breach after numbers ported, data accessed
Lawrence Abrams reports: Mint Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unauthorized person gained access to subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers to another carrier. According to the data breach notification email sent to affected subscribers this weekend, between June 8th and June 10th, a threat actor ported the phone numbers for a…
NC: Hackers Steal Critical Customer Data From Bank Of Oak Ridge
Scott D. Yost reports: Social Security numbers. Bank account numbers. Dates of birth. Driver’s license numbers. Customers of the Bank of Oak Ridge have had all that information exposed due to a security breach. Hackers have hit the bank and unknown or undisclosed numbers of customers have had key data stolen. A letter informing customers…