On May 12, DataBreaches.net reported that Magellan Health was notifying an unspecified number of individuals as a result of a ransomware attack. At the time they wrote their notification letter, Magellan stated that investigators had found that a subset of data had been exfiltrated from a single corporate server. As explained in their first notification…
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. Justice Department today charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In addition, a defendant in the United States was sentenced today to drug…
Jamesville-DeWitt High School student email list breached; explicit messages sent
Elizabeth Doran reports: DeWitt, N.Y. — The Jamesville-DeWitt High School email listserv was breached, and three “explicit” messages were sent to students, according to a notification the district sent to families. The messages were each one line, and contained vulgar language directed at school administrators, according to copies obtained by syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. They were all…
LifeLabs failed to protect the personal health information of millions of Canadians- Privacy Commissioners
In November, 2019, Canadian testing laboratory provider LifeLabs disclosed a data breach. In February, 2020, it tried to block regulators from accessing a report on the breach prepared for it by Crowdstrike. Today, the B.C. and Ontario privacy commissioners released their report on the incident. It was highly critical of LifeLabs. Knowing that the report…
Personal Data of 350,000+ Social Media Influencers and Users Compromised Following Preen.Me Hack
RBS notes: The personal information of an estimated 100,000+ social media influencers has been compromised and partially leaked, following the breach of social media marketing company, Preen.Me. Furthermore, as a result of this breach, over 250,000 social media users have had their information fully exposed on a deep web hacking forum. Based in Tel Aviv, Preen.Me…
FBI warns K12 schools of ransomware attacks via RDP
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation sent out on Tuesday a security alert to K12 schools about the increase in ransomware attacks during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and especially about ransomware gangs that abuse RDP connections to break into school systems. The alert, called a Private Industry Notification, or PIN, tells schools…