Nate Tabak reports: George got the email a week after the ransomware attack on the small trucking and logistics company he manages. It contained screenshots from within the firm’s transportation management system, or TMS, the digital nerve center that orchestrates the movement of trucks and freight. The hackers sent the screenshots among other stolen data….
Ca: Saint John won’t pay ransom to hackers, city manager says
Julia Wright of CBC reports: The city of Saint John has no plans to pay hackers a ransom after its network was attacked three months ago. In his regular update to common council Monday, city manager John Collin said the city had a backup system in place and “the vast majority” of the data has…
Sequoia Capital Suffers Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: Sequoia Capital last week warned investors that some of their personal and sensitive information may have been exposed in a recent data breach of the firm. According to reports, Sequoia said the data may have been accessed by a third party in the breach, which occurred as a result of a successful phishing attack on an employee via email….
PH: NPC finds data breach in cash-loaning app
Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat has an update on the Cashalo breach, noted previously. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said its initial findings showed data breach on cash-loaning application Cashalo where a certain user was found selling personal information of 3.3 million users. NPC said this following its preliminary probe on the data security issue of Cashalo, which…
Transport for NSW confirms data taken in Accellion breach
Aras Barbaschow reports: Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack on a file transfer system owned by Accellion. Read more on ZDNet.
Cybercriminal sells credentials of French hospital workers
François Manens reports (translation): 50,000 user accounts of French hospital agents are for sale on a cybercriminal forum. This data could allow buyers to access the computer networks of certain health establishments. Once introduced to the system, criminals can deploy their ransomware and cripple the hospital. New alert for French hospitals, this time launched by the monitoring site…