BR- After 4 days offline, Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e dos Territórios website was back online August 3rd. Samara Schwingel-Isadora Teixera reported (machine-translated): The platform remains unstable due to adjustments that will be made. The Civil Police are investigating the hackers who allegedly took down the site. Read more at Metropoles. DataBreaches has…
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Federal Bill Would Broaden FTC’s Role in Cybersecurity and Data Breach Disclosures
Kristin L. Bryan and Jeffrey L. Turner of Squire Patton Boggs write: Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 4551, the “Reporting Attacks from Nations Selected for Oversight and Monitoring Web Attacks and Ransomware from Enemies Act” (“RANSOMWARE Act”). H.R. 4551 was introduced by Consumer Protection and Commerce Ranking Member Gus Bilirakis…
Hackers’ Identities Are Unmasked by Controversial Twitter Feed
William Turton reports that a Twitter user and account unmasking hackers’ identities created a backlash from researchers and others. The account and associated substack blog have been removed. Going by the handle “pancak3,” the anonymous account quickly racked up over 10,000 followers thanks to the sheer volume of alleged hackers they’ve exposed. The person behind the account…
Thai entities continue to fall prey to cyberattacks and leaks
For over one year, DataBreaches.net has highlighted some breaches of ASEAN victims by groups such as ALTDOS and DESORDEN. In addition to those two groups, there are also numerous other leaks and breaches, as DataBreaches noted in our recent post about leaks and breaches in Indonesia. But even while DataBreaches was researching and preparing the…
Ransom payments fall as fewer victims choose to pay hackers
Bill Toulas reports: Ransomware statistics from the second quarter of the year show that the ransoms paid to extortionists have dropped in value, a trend that continues since the last quarter of 2021. Ransomware remediation firm Coveware has published a report today with ransomware data from the second quarter of 2022 showing that although the…
Infinity Rehab and Avamere Health Services notify 380,984 patients about breach at Avamere (with updates)
In April 2022, DataBreaches became aware of a possible breach involving Avamere Holdings, a group of companies providing senior living healthcare and rehabilitation services including IT services. Today, we learned that they did have a breach of their network. Premere Rehab, LLC (“Infinity Rehab”) reported that Avamere Health Services had alerted them that they had…