Updated August 24: The #DarkSide’s victim is Brookfield Residential. Brookfield Residential describes themselves as a North American land developer and new home builder, and the “flagship North American residential property company of Brookfield Asset Management.” On their leak site, the threat actors had linked to Brookfield.com, which is Brookfield Asset Management, but the documents dumped…
CO: Mental Health Partners discloses email hack potentially compromised employee and patient data
Mental Health Partners (also known as “Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc.) issued a press release this week about an employee email account compromise discovered in late March. An investigation revealed that the personal information of some MHP clients and current and former employees may have been accessed or taken during the incident. The…
ZA: Social grant applications found dumped in Ndedwe
Nothando Mkhize reports that a pile of social grant applications were found on a street in Ndwedwe. The South African Post Office is investigating to see if they were stolen from a post office during a burglary last month. In a puzzlingly vague statement, a spokesperson noted that an employee has been suspended. But why?…
TX: Dozens of boxes of medical records found at Odessa Recycling Center
Joshua Skinner reports: Over two dozen boxes of old medical records containing personal patient information were found at the Odessa Recycling Center over the weekend. How old medical records from West Texas Orthopedics came to be sitting out in the open at the recycling center this past weekend isn’t clear, nor is who’s to blame….
Free photos, graphics site Freepik discloses data breach impacting 8.3m users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Freepik, a website dedicated to providing access to high-quality free photos and design graphics, has disclosed today a major security breach. The company made it official after users started grumbling on social media this week about receiving shady-looking breach notification emails in their inboxes. Read more on ZDNet.
“Blue Leaks” data breach also affected SD COVID-19 patients
Angela Kennecke reports: The so called “BlueLeaks” data breach, which compromised the information of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the nation in June, has a whole new twist tonight that involves South Dakota and people who tested positive for COVID-19. KELOLAND Investigates has obtained a letter sent by the director of the…