Joseph Cox reports: Low-level hackers are trading a database of user information stolen from Pluto TV, a popular American internet television service. But Pluto TV has decided not to proactively inform users of the breach. The move is somewhat unusual in a space where companies increasingly inform their customers of data breaches, even regarding breaches…
Ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims if they restore from backups without paying
Earlier this week, DataBreaches.net reported that a Georgia dental group was surprised to get a phone call from threat actors informing them that their files had been exfiltrated by the ransomware threat actors. It seems that when they had detected anomalies, they wiped the server and reinstalled from backup, and perhaps never noticed any “read…
A rough week in ransomware….
The following are just a few of the entities hit by ransomware attacks this week: USNR LLC is a manufacturing firm in Woodland, Washington. On their site, they describe themselves as “the world’s largest, most comprehensive supplier of equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry.” And according to a notification they sent, on September…
UK: Probe into data breach at Highland Perthshire resort after details of 2,400 members leaked online
Jamie Buchan reports: Bosses at a Perthshire holiday resort have been accused of an “inexcusable” security breach after posting the personal emails and phone numbers of more than 2,400 members on their website. The Loch Rannoch Highland Club, which counts former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith amongst its visitors, was reported to data protection…
IT: Radio Azzurra hit by cyberattack, ransom demand
Luca Mattioli reports (translated): Yes, the virus has also hit… “Radio Azzurra”. We are certainly not talking about Covid, but much more simply – so to speak – of a real cyber attack that the historic Novara radio station was the victim of yesterday. «In forty-five years of activity I have seen many – admits…
Update on Dyras Dental ransomware attack
On September 24, DataBreaches.net contacted Dyras Dental in Lansing, Michigan to ask about Egregor threat actors’ claim that they had attacked them and exfiltrated data. Dyras Dental did not respond to that contact or to my subsequent DM to them on Twitter. On October 5, not seeing anything on Dyras Dental’s web site or Twitter…