Choi A-ri reports: Kim Young-shub, KT’s representative, stated regarding the unauthorized micro-payment incident, “I will take responsibility once the situation is resolved,” effectively expressing his intention to step down from his position. During a National Assembly Science, ICT, Broadcasting and Communications Committee audit held on the 21st, Kim bowed his head in response to a…
Cyber-Attack On Bectu’s Parent Union Sparks UK National Security Concerns
Jake Kanter reports: The cyber-attack on Prospect, the parent union of film and TV group Bectu, has sparked fears that it could have compromised information pertaining to the UK’s national security. Deadline revealed earlier this month that the majority of Prospect’s 150,000 members had their data breached during an “IT security incident” in June. Our original…
Attorney General James Announces Settlement with Wojeski & Company Accounting Firm
Wojeski & Company suffered a ransomware attack, and then an insider breach when an employee of a firm hired to investigate the breach inappropriately accessed data. Employees were also transmitting data to external accounts without authorization. To make things even worse, the accounting firm took more than a year to notify those affected. From a…
Romanian prisoner hacks prison IT system in plot made for a Netflix movie
Over on Risky Biz News, Catalin Cimpanu has a great write-up about how a Romanian prisoner hacked the country’s prison management platform. He writes: The incident took place in August and continued through October. From various reports in Romanian media and a statement released by the national penitentiary police union, the incident appears to have originated in the city of Dej, in Romania’s…
JFL Lost Up to $800,000 Weekly After Cyberattack, CEO Says No Patient or Staff Data Was Compromised
Juan F. Luis Hospital CEO Darlene A. Baptiste says no personal data was stolen in the April cyberattack that forced the hospital offline for months, causing major billing delays, financial losses, and a massive system rebuild now nearly complete. Ernice Gilbert reports: The April cyberattack that crippled the Juan F. Luis Hospital’s electronic systems cost the facility…
Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
Joseph Cox reports: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group…