First they arrested the suspected administrator on March 7. Today, they shut down the platform. From DOJ: A Russian-based cyber platform known as DEER.IO was shut down by the FBI today, and its suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov – was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S….
An old HIPAA incident rears its very ugly head again
Like other journalists who cover data breaches in the healthcare space, I routinely check HHS’s public breach disclosure tool (sometimes called “The Wall of Shame”) to see what breaches have been reported to them and with what numbers. One of the recent entries was from a “Stephan C. Dean” who listed himself as a business…
Indian property site hack leads to 2 million users’ data exposed
Hindustan Times reports: Private data of more than 2 million users were shared on a hacking forum following a major security breach of the Indian property website PropTiger in 2018. According to a new Have I been pwned alert, the exposed data contains both user records and login histories with more than 2 million unique customer email…
Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike
Raphael Satter, Jack Stubbs, and Christopher Bing report: Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear,…
SC: Bluffton Township Fire District systems attacked with ransomware
I had missed this ransomware incident report last week from Marah Brock: On March 15, the Bluffton Township Fire District’s electronic systems were hacked. Officials said in a press release that during the day personnel reported district-wide issues accessing server information, reporting systems and everyday computer programs. Read more on Fox28media. They do not report…
Hacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating reports from Chinese media. In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and…