Ian Duncan and Christine Zhang report: Officials in the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville arrived to work one morning in early April to find the files on some 800 of their computers locked up. More than five weeks later, they’re still recovering from the debilitating cyberattack. The city of around 92,000 realized April 10…
Salesforce outage hits when firm tries to stop data leak
From the we-tried to fix-the-frying-pan-now-about-that-fire dept., Michael Novinson reports: Salesforce told customers on Saturday Australian time that it is experiencing a “major issue with its service” and is attempting to resolve it as quickly as possible. At the time of writing the firm’s status page said the incident impacts “several Salesforce NA and EU instances”…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America notifies patients after phishing attack on employee email account
Cancer Treatment Centers of America has been sending notification letters to patients whose protected health information was in an employee email account that was compromised by a phishing attack. The employee works at the Southeastern Regional Medical Center. The attack took place on March 10, 2019, and the attacker was potentially able to access the…
Hacktivist attacks dropped by 95% since 2015
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Threat intelligence analysts have long said that hacktivism was dead but new data published by IBM X-Force today confirms the complete collapse of hacktivism scene, with activity levels going down by 95% since 2015. According to IBM, security incidents caused by hacker groups operating under hacktivism causes has been on a decline…
Ca: $60 million class-action lawsuit denied by judge
CTV reports: A proposed class-action lawsuit seeking $60 million in damages against Casino Rama following a cyber-attack has been denied. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued as many as 200,000 people might have had their personal information stolen in the hack, including employees and patrons. In November 2016, the casino announced it had been the victim…
Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers
Renee Dudley and Jeff Kao report that two firms that advertised technology solutions to responding to ransomware incidents — Proven Data Recovery of Elmsford, New York and Florida-based MonsterCloud – were really just paying ransom to the attackers. Read more on ProPublica. I suspect that ransom payments have been the dirty little secret for the…