Victor Enengedi reports: A total sum exceeding N200 million has been collected by the Federal Government from at least seven banks and various other institutions. The Federal Government collected these payments from these financial institutions as a consequence of their infringement upon the data privacy rights of Nigerian citizens. Read more at Legit. (If I’m…
A question for OnniForums (UPDATED)
Please see important update below this post. As DataBreaches previously reported, this site had received an email from OnniForums about Exposed.vc but the email had no reply option. Still curious and seeking answers about claims made in the email, I joined OnniForums, and found a post that mentioned my reporting on them by @DataBroker: Posted…
Former RAIDforums member “DataBox” sentenced to prison by Amsterdam court
A former member of RAIDForums was sentenced to prison today by an Amsterdam court. The 25-year-old man, Erkan Sezgin, was known as “DataBox” on RAIDforums when he listed the data of millions of Austrians for sale. Sezgin, who was employed as a data engineer at Matrixian Group, was arrested in November 2022 and detained until…
Microsoft admitted it was targeted in a cyber attack claimed by a Russian-linked group called Anonymous Sudan
Ananya Bhattacharya reports: The disruptions to Microsoft’s services earlier this month were indeed the result of hacks, the software giant has admitted. In a blogpost Friday (June 16), the Redmond, Washington-based tech behemoth attributed the “surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability” to the “ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks…
Chinese nation-state actor behind Barracuda ESG attacks
Kyle Alspach reports: Mandiant ‘assesses with high confidence’ that state-backed Chinese hackers carried out attacks on customers of Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway Hackers working for China’s government are the likely culprits behind the recent cyberattack campaign targeting customers who use Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway, according to prominent incident response firm Mandiant. The attacks, which have…
BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data
As if Reddit wasn’t already having serious issues these days, they have allegedly been hacked by AlphV (aka BlackCat), who write: Operators broke into Reddit on February 5, 2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data. Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once on April 13 and one again on June 16. There was no…