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…
They, too, also issued breach notices…
Each week, I post some articles on this site about breaches involving protected health information or medical information, but there are usually other reports that just get entered on my worksheets for analysis for Protenus. To give you a taste of how many more incidents we record but not necessarily post in a week, I…
Capital One notifies more clients of SSNs exposed in 2019 data breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: US bank Capital One notified additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in a data breach announced in July 2019. The day the breach was disclosed, the Department of Justice arrested and indicted the suspected hacker, former Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee Paige Thompson, who posted about stealing data on GitHub after infiltrating Capital One’s AWS…
Robinhood Warns Customers of Tax-Season Phishing Scams
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: Attackers are impersonating the stock-trading broker using fake websites to steal credentials as well as sending emails with malicious tax files. Attackers have targeted customers of stock-trading broker Robinhood with a phishing campaign aimed to steal their credentials and spread malware using fake tax documents, the company has warned. Read more on…