Ionut Ilascu reports: More and more ransomware victims are resisting the extortionists and refuse to pay when they can recover from backups, despite hackers’ threats to leak the data stolen before encryption. This stance resulted in Q4 of 2020 seeing a significant decline in the average ransom payments compared to the previous quarter, says ransomware…
Serco cyber attack: Belgian military and European Space Agency told ‘no data compromised’ despite hack
Alexander Martin reports: The Belgian military and the European Space Agency (ESA) are among organisations that have sought assurances from Serco, the company behind NHS Test and Trace, following a cyber attack. The outsourcing firm told them their information has not been compromised. Images of stolen files circulating on social media only indicate the criminals…
CEO who lied to thousands of patients by telling them they had less than six months to live in order to enroll them in hospice sentenced to prison
There are bad breaches, and then there are the ones where words like “despicable,” “evil,” “immoral,” “disgusting,” and “reprehensible” just seem too weak to express how decent people might feel. This case out of Texas is one of those. Here is DOJ’s press release issued today: The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and…
Stiftung Warentest uncovered major security gaps in online etailer.
Marion Neumann reports (translation): Munich – In times of the corona lockdown , online shopping is probably a blessing for many people. Products can be conveniently delivered to your home with just a few clicks. However, the shopping experience becomes problematic when there are difficulties with data protection. There was such a problem recently with the online shop voelkner.de . According…
‘Particularly Egregious’: US Fertility Hit with Class Action Over Month-Long 2020 Data Breach
Corrado Rizzi reports: US Fertility, LLC faces a proposed class action centered on a reported September 2020 data breach in which hackers armed with ransomware gained access to a trove of personal information from the fertility clinic support services company’s clients. The 29-page lawsuit in Maryland federal court says hackers were able to access US…
UK: Foxtons customer data leaked onto the dark web
Sabina Weston reports: Financial details belonging to customers of UK estate agency Foxtons are widely available on the dark web following a malware attack in October last year that affected parent company Foxtons Group. Despite admitting that the incident affected its subsidiary Alexander Hall, which specialises in mortgage broking, Foxtons assured its customers at the time that no “sensitive…