Ronald Mizen reports: Logins for more than 3600 MyGov accounts are for sale on the dark web, potentially exposing thousands of Australians to fraud and identity theft. The MyGov accounts are among a list of more than 150,000 hacked “.com.au” logins available for sale on dark web marketplaces, where logins are sold for as little…
Misconfigured firewall resulted in LogBox data exposure and conflicting claims
Earlier this week, Jake Bright of TechCrunch reported that security researcher Anurag Sen had found an exposed database belonging to LogBox, a South African medical data app that allows patients to share information with their doctors more easily. According to TechCrunch’s report, the researcher had found an exposed database containing account access tokens for “thousands…
NY Employment Nonprofit Client Data Potentially Exposed
Rick Moriarity reports: A data breach at CNY Works may have exposed the names and Social Security numbers of 56,000 people who have used the nonprofit agency’s services to find jobs. Clients potentially impacted by the breach began receiving letters from the agency this week warning that files targeted by a suspected ransomware attack on the agency’s…
Italian Garante Fines Bank 600,000 Euros for Pre-GDPR Data Breach
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, “Garante”) recently announced that it levied a €600,000 fine on banking institution UniCredit for several violations of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code, in its pre-General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) form. The sanction was imposed following a data breach that took…
Hacker ransoms 23k MongoDB databases and threatens to contact GDPR authorities
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has uploaded ransom notes on 22,900 MongoDB databases left exposed online without a password, a number that accounts for roughly 47% of all MongoDB databases accessible online, ZDNet has learned today. The hacker is using an automated script to scan for misconfigured MongoDB databases, wiping their content, and leaving a…
Hakbit ransomware campaign targeting specific European countries
Derek Kortepeter reports: Proofpoint researchers have published findings on a campaign involving the Hakbit ransomware. As their blog post states, the ransomware is being spread via spear-phishing emails targeted at individuals in “mid-level positions across the pharmaceutical, legal, financial, business service, retail, and healthcare sector.” The attacks, described as low-volume, are specifically targeting employees of organizations located in…