Tzvi Joffre reports: Black Shadow, the hackers who leaked thousands of documents containing the personal information of customers with Israel’s Shirbit insurance company in December, have now hacked the servers of K.L.S. Capital Ltd as well, the group said in a Telegram post on Saturday. On Saturday morning, the hacker group announced, “We are here…
ZA: PPS hit by cyber attack
Jamie McKane reports: PPS, a South African insurance and investment advisory company, has suffered a cyber attack at the hands of unknown hackers. The company notified clients in a statement today that their services may be disrupted as it attempts to restore functionality to its IT infrastructure. Read more on My Broadband. It’s not yet…
CRA locking 800K Canadian taxpayers out of accounts
Rachel Aiello reports: The Canada Revenue Agency is locking out 800,000 users from their online accounts on Saturday, out of fear that people’s usernames and passwords have been hacked. Citing the cybersecurity risk of having this information in the hands of potentially bad actors, obtained through email phishing schemes or third party data breaches, the…
Mobile Anesthesiologists notifies patients of ePHI leak
Sometimes it takes months until I see a notification related to a leak I reported to an entity. This week, Mobile Anesthesiologists disclosed a data leak. Their notification is embedded below. The back story on this one is that in December, a researcher alerted DataBreaches.net to a leak involving what appeared to be ePHI from…
Security firm notifies 36,762 after malware attack
Since 2019, Security Industry Specialists seems to have kept a subdued profile on the Internet. Their web site, Twitter, and Facebook accounts have not been updated since 2019, and you might get the impression that their web site had been abandoned. But checking on LinkedIn, the firm is actively hiring, and they have almost 2,000…
Apple sues former MacBook product design employee for allegedly leaking to the press
Ian Sherr reports: Apple says a former product design employee stole information about hardware products, unannounced features and future plans and leaked them to a journalist, breaking the company’s nondisclosure policies and trade secrets laws. In the the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court of the Northern District of California, Apple outlined a…