Patrick Phillips reports: Georgetown County leaders say a “major infrastructure breach” over the weekend is affecting most of the county’s electronic systems. It is not yet clear what information may have been compromised in the attack. Read more on Live5News. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Man arrested after UK school finds wiped hard drives on devices connected to network
Gareth Corfield reports: A 28-year-old has been arrested after allegedly carrying out what police have labelled a “sophisticated cyber attack” on a school. The unnamed man is suspected of disrupting Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England. A police spokesman told a local news website: “Officers received a report of a major IT outage at…
NC: Haywood County Schools Sends Data Breach Notices for August Ransomware Attack
Becky Johnson reports: Hundreds of current and former Haywood County Schools employees got letters this month informing them their private information could have been compromised in a cyberattack against the school system. A cybercriminal ring hacked the school’s servers in August and attempted to blackmail the school system into paying a ransom in exchange for…
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Lookup Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
Joseph Cox reports: A user of a low level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose…
Dutch COVID-19 patient data sold on the criminal underground
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. The arrests came after an investigation by RTL Nieuws reporter Daniel Verlaan who discovered ads for Dutch citizen data online, advertised on instant messaging apps like Telegram, Snapchat, and Wickr. Read more…
Tennessee Wesleyan University systems recovering after Friday ransomware attack
Shane Duncan reports: Tennessee Wesleyan University was the target of a cyber attack that held certain files for ransom last week. The university is currently investigating the attack that was made on the campus network early Friday morning along with local officials, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and TWU’s insurance company’s cyberattack team. According…