Regular readers may recall that September, 2020 was not a good month for St. Roper Francis, and DataBreaches.net had to explain that the healthcare system was dealing with notifications from two unrelated breaches. One involved 6,000 patients impacted by a hack of an employee’s email account. The other involved more than 90,000 patients impacted by…
330k Payment Cards and $38m in Gift Cards Stolen in Online Gift Shop Incident
In February 2021, a threat actor sold 895,000 stolen gift cards on a top-tier Russian-language forum. The gift cards had an approximate value of $38 million, and allegedly came from more than 3,000 top name brand companies such as AirBnB, Amazon, American Airlines, Chipotle, Dunkin Donuts, Marriott, Nike, Subway, Target, and Walmart. The auction opened…
US indicts California man accused of stealing Shopify customer data
Zack Whittaker reports: A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch has learned. The indictment charges Tassilo Heinrich with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud by allegedly working with two Shopify customer support agents to steal merchant and customer data from…
SG: Personal data of 30,000 users of NTUC’s e2i training and job matching services may have been breached
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of about 30,000 people who have used the services of National Trades Union Congress’ Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) may have been accessed by cyber criminals. The crooks may have had unauthorised access to people’s names, educational qualifications and NRIC, contact and employment details, according to a statement by…
Brown University hit by cyberattack, some systems still offline
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Brown University, a private US research university, had to disable systems and cut connections to the data center after suffering a cyberattack on Tuesday. The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked faculty and staff to switch to computers running other operating systems,…
Brescia and Rho: Municipalities report cyberattacks
Cristiano Ghidotti reports: Unfortunately, the news of the cyber attack that has brought the systems of the Municipality of Brescia and the provision of services to citizens to their knees does not seem to be an April fool . This is communicated by the official website of the Lombard capital, with a brief statement that we report below. The Municipality of Brescia informs…