DataBreaches did not mention this publicly sooner because Kido was already under great pressure due to the breach involving children’s personal information and photos. But now that many people are feeling some relief that the hackers have supposedly deleted all the data and won’t be calling parents any more, DataBreaches can reveal that on Monday,…
Hackers say they have deleted children’s pictures and data after nursery attack backlash
Joe Tidy reports: Hackers who attempted to extort a nursery chain by posting stolen images and data about children on the darknet have removed the posts and claim to have deleted the information. The criminals began posting profiles of the children to their website last Thursday, adding another 10 children days later and vowing to continue until Kido Schools…
Judge throws out lawsuit against Columbus over data breach
Fox28 reports: A Franklin County judge dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, which claimed it failed to follow industry standards and federal guidelines for data security. The lawsuit was filed last year after the ransomware group Rhysida claimed it stole over 6 terabytes of city data and posted it for sale. The incident caused the city to shut down multiple systems…
Leak of patient records feared as Israeli hospital hit by cyberattack demanding ransom
The Times of Israel reports: The Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in the central city of Beer Yaakov was targeted by a cyberattack over Yom Kippur, according to a joint announcement from the hospital, the Health Ministry and the National Cyber Directorate. Authorities were investigating the possibility of a leak as a result of the attack….
Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
Lawrence Abrams reports: An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances. This data allegedly includes approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which can contain sensitive information about a…
AI-driven medical benefits servicer hit with data breach
Chad Van Alstin reports: Healthcare Interactive, a company that develops AI-based medical insurance benefit enrollment and billing solutions, confirmed last week that it experienced a data breach that involved personal data from customers being moved offsite by hackers. The exact number of impacted individuals was not revealed. However, the company said stolen data included names,…