Sergiu Gatlan reports: Cryptocurrency trading platform Hotbit has shut down all services for at least a week after a cyberattack that down several of its services on Thursday evening. Hotbit assured its roughly 2 million registered users from over 210 countries (500,000 of them using the platform’s Android app) that their cryptocurrency assets were “safe and…
Tr: Cyber attack against the company involved with the 1915 Çanakkale bridge and motorway project
DLSY, formed by four Turkish and South Korean companies: Daelim, Limak, SK E&C, and Yapı Merkezi, is responsible for the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge and Motorway Project, a project that involves 25 financial institutions from 10 countries. The partnership was hit by a cyberattack that encrypted some of the files and servers. Yurtgazetesi reports that some servers…
PA: Data breach discovered at Achievement Center of LECOM Health
YourErie.com reports: A recent data breach was discovered at the Achievement Center of LECOM Health According to a news release release, ACLH discovered suspicious activity in two of its business email accounts back on March 2nd. An investigation revealed that there was unauthorized access to one email account from the Achievement Center of LECOM Health…
GitHub Leaks: Lessons Learned
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Recent incidents involving inadvertent exposure of patient data on GitHub, a software development and version control platform designed for collaboration, point to the need to ensure that data loss prevention tools are implemented, available security controls are leveraged and employees are made aware of the risks involved in using internet-facing platforms….
UK: Colchester Institute suffers cyber security attack
The education sector has long been recognized as a relatively easy target for criminals. Now Colchester Institute in the U.K. has fallen prey to a cyberattack. The attack was first announced on April 29, but had occurred earlier in the week. In their first statement, posted on their web site, the school wrote As soon…
Toronto hit by ‘potential cyber breach’ from Accellion file transfer software
Howard Solomon reports: The City of Toronto says it suffered a “potential cyber breach” from a hack of data from use of its Accellion FTA file transfer server in January that may have involved the health information of individuals. In its initial statement today, the city said it was notified of a potential cyber breach related…