As seen on Catalin Cimpanu’s RiskyBiz News: Major breach in Hungary: A hacking group named Sawarim has breached eKRÉTA, the company behind a school management platform widely deployed across Hungary. The platform is believed to store the personal details of more than 720,000 Hungarian students, aged between 6 and 18 years. While the hackers told a local…
Kraken CSO claims to Identify the Hacker Who Stole $600 Million From FTX
Delma Wilson reports on the dramatic developments in the cryptocurrency market after FTX announced a massive theft, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried declared bankruptcy, and resigned. Satoshi Stacker tweeted that Kraken should be able to track down the thief/hacker because they had used Kraken to offload the stolen funds throughout the hack: BREAKING: The FTX ”Hacker”…
World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game. Football fans and others visiting Qatar must download two apps: Ehteraz, a Covid-19…
Los Angeles prosecutors drop charges against Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, accused of overseeing ‘largest data breach in United States history’
Joseph Mackinnon reports: In an abrupt and hushed post-election reversal on Wednesday, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office (DAO) dropped all charges against Eugene Yu, citing “potential bias” in the investigation. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted the dismissal per the DAO’s request. Yu, a 64-year-old Chinese national, is the CEO of the Michigan-based…
UK: Data of Hereford school’s pupils posted on darkweb
Anna Zhadan reports: The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School in the Tupsley district of Hereford, England, suffered a data breach back in October, when threat actors attacked the institution’s systems. However, at the time, the school reassured that the personal information of students and staff was safe. Yet now, the school, which has around 1000…
20 million Americans in 21 states ‘are still at risk of dangerous healthcare after cyberattack’: IT breach at one of biggest hospital chains in the US has already caused overdoses, cancer delays and ambulance diversions
Caitlin Tilley reports: Twenty million Americans are at risk of ‘dangerous’ healthcare after a cyberattack at one of the country’s biggest hospital chains last month, security experts have told DailyMail.com. CommonSpirit Health — a system that runs 140 hospitals, and more than 1,000 care sites including cancer clinics, surgery hubs and stroke centers— suffered a major IT breach…