Kyodo News reports: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. and 36 other Japanese companies had authentication information to access their virtual private networks stolen and leaked by hackers this summer, an information security expert said Tuesday. VPN usage has increased as companies encourage employees to work from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
CO: City of Lafayette statement on July ransomware attack
On August 6, media in Colorado reported that the City of Lafayette had paid $45,000 to get a decryption key following a ransomware attack. On August 24, the city published a notification about the incident: This public notice is intended to advise residents, employees, and customers of an incident involving a cyberattack on the City…
Ca: Brookfield Residential confirms ransomware attack
As DataBreaches.net reported earlier today, although DarkSide ransomware operators claimed to have attacked Brookfield Asset Management, they appear to have attacked Brookfield Residential, a North American land developer and residential home builder. Brookfield Residential is an independently operating portfolio company that runs on an isolated network and domain from all other Brookfield entities, including Brookfield…
More Canadian entities hit with ransomware
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?…