Zach Barrett report: Friday was a normal day for North Port mother Sarah Courtney until she received a call from a detective at the North Port Police Department. “I thought it was a joke at that point and I was like, who is this? Why are you calling me?” said Courtney. “Then he said, do you have…
350,000 pieces of data stolen from Japanese game software maker Capcom
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Capcom Co., an Osaka-based major game software maker, announced Monday that up to 350,000 pieces of information, including those of its customers, might have been compromised by cyber-attacks. The company said the potentially stolen data includes its customers’ personal details, such as names, telephone numbers and email addresses. The company also…
Over 80,000 ID Cards and Fingerprint Scans Exposed in Cloud Leak
Phil Muncaster reports: A US-based used electronics retailer has exposed over 2.6 million files, including ID cards and biometric images, after a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket was discovered. Researchers at Website Planet traced the instance back to California-based TronicsXchange, previously trading as GreenElectronicsExchange (GEEx). A random scan for server vulnerabilities led to the discovery of…
Chicago suburban school districts experience apparent hacks in which offensive, sexual messages sent
ABC reports: A suburban school district said its system might have been hacked this weekend. Township High School District 211 covers parts of Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights and other northwest suburbs. The district said outgoing emails, phone calls and text messages were compromised Saturday night. But that wasn’t the only suburban district attacked successfully,…
American Bank Systems hit by ransomware attack, full 53 GB data dump leaked
Ax Sharma reports: American Bank Systems (ABS), a company that provides services to U.S. financial institutions and banks helping them “operate efficiently and confidently in a rapidly evolving – highly regulated – environment” has been hit by a ransomware attack this month. Avaddon, the ransomware group behind the attack had earlier alleged they had acquired over…
Umanis hit by NetWalker ransomware?
Valery Marchive reports (translation follows): Umanis declared, this Monday morning November 16, to have been the subject, “like many other companies, of a cyberattack on November 14″. In its press release, also repeated on social networks, the ESN ensures that “the spread of the virus was immediately stopped, thanks to isolation measures. The computer network and applications were disconnected…