Terry Bridge reports: Stratford city hall was the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe personal information was compromised. The city first acknowledged the incident in a Sunday night in a Facebook post. Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson said Monday the city has determined it was a ransomware attack, but IT staff “found…
IT Grids Aadhaar data theft case may be the biggest ever in India: Experts
U Sudhakar Reddy reports: The IT Grids case may not be the first FIR filed on basis of a complaint by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) but the magnitude of the case is huge according to data security researchers. The case pertaining to the Sevamitra app designed by the company for the Telugu…
A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total of 932 million records overall. The hacker’s name is Gnosticplayers,…
OH: Health Recovery Services notifying more than 20,000 patients after discovering unauthorized access that began in 2018
Health Recovery Services in Athens, Ohio, recently notified 20,485 patients after discovering in that an unauthorized IP address had accessed their network. The unauthorized access appears to have begun in November, 2018, and continued until the intrusion was discovered on February 5, 2019. Although investigation could not find any evidence that ePHI had been accessed,…
Man convicted in Dubai for hacking 15 websites
Ali Al Shouk reports: A man was sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation for hacking the server of a media company which was responsible for 15 client websites, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard yesterday. The 33-year-old Indian man was charged with hacking websites and issuing threats. He was handed a…
Thousands of identities, personal information published in FBI-related hack
Alex Johnson reports: A nonprofit organization affiliated with the FBI confirmed that hackers breached the web servers of multiple chapters and published the names and addresses of hundreds of law enforcement personnel and thousands of other people online. The hacked materials, which were released late last week and obtained Sunday by NBC News, include names,…