AP reports: Kia Motors America says it’s restoring services crippled by a computer network outage that began Saturday and which apparently affected dealers’ ability to order vehicles and parts and knocked offline a smartphone app that owners use to remotely start and warm up vehicles. Both Kia and affiliated automaker Hyundai Motor America, which reported a less severe IT outage it…
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Accellion’s data breach left clients in tough position: pay extortion to criminals, or have their data dumped (with updates)
A breach involving Accellion‘s older file transfer application has left a number of its customers in the unenviable position of not only having a data breach to deal with, but with the added threat that their data and their clients’ data will be dumped by threat actors if they do not pay extortion demands. At…
UPDATED: California DMV halts data transfers with third-party company after Automatic Funds Transfer Services security breach
Update: As BleepingComputer reports, the AFTS attack appears to be the work of the Cuba ransomware threat actor(s) who claim to have exfiltrated “Financial documents, correspondence with bank employees, account movements, balance sheets, tax documents.” They offer to sell the data on their dedicated leak site on the dark web, but do not list any…
MN: School district employees falls for phishing attack; W-2 forms of 677 employees now compromised
David Colburn reports: REGIONAL- ISD 2142 fell prey to a common online phishing scheme on Feb. 4 when a scammer posing as Superintendent Reggie Engebritson used a fraudulent email to obtain the W-2 forms of 677 district employees. Engebritson sent a letter to staff the same day, informing them of the data breach. Read more…
San Jose Man Pleads Guilty to Computer Hack that Shut Down Opening Day Concession Sales at San Jose Earthquakes Stadium
SAN JOSE – Salvatore A. La Rosa pleaded guilty today in federal court in San Jose to intentional damage to a protected computer, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. La Rosa, 41, of San Jose, admitted in his guilty plea to intentionally…
First it was Blackbaud, now it’s Sodinokibi — Southern Arkansas University becomes a breach victim again
Marco De Felice reports: After being VICTIM OF THE BLACKBAUD DATA BREACH in May of last year, Southern Arkansas University is now facing a new data theft by the Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware group. A few minutes ago, the Sodinokibi Ransomware group published a series of screenshots on its website regarding some data exfiltrated during the cyber attack against the…