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…
John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt
Kim Zetter reports: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained…
UK: ‘Catastrophic’ attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security…