Andrea Peterson reports: Web traffic from major Ukrainian internet service provider Ukrtelecom was disrupted Monday, causing one of the most widespread internet outages in the country since Russian troops invaded late last month. Ukrainian government officials attributed the disruption to a cyberattack. Read more at The Record.
UK: Confidential documents were blown into gardens in data breach
Adam Shaw reports: A North London council has suspended its bin collection provider from handling sensitive material after letters containing residents’ personal information were blown into gardens and gutters. Brent Council is investigating a “data breach” after council documents fell off a Veolia truck on its way to a depot in Croydon. Read more at…
Names and addresses of 620 FSB officers published in data breach
Tom Ball reports: The names and addresses of 620 people who are said to be FSB officers were published yesterday in what Kyiv said was a huge data breach of the Russian security agency. The Ukrainian directorate of intelligence claimed that the list included the personal details of agents engaging in “criminal activities” across Europe….
CA: North Orange County Community College District updates students and faculty on breach
Add North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD) to any list you may be Curating of colleges that have suffered breaches. According to a report from the college, beginning on December 7, 2021, an unauthorized individual accessed the networks of both Cypress College and Fullerton College and may have exfiltrated copies of files. The attack…
Lapsus$ found a spreadsheet of passwords as they breached Okta, documents show
Zack Whittaker reports on the Sitel compromise after not previously disclosed documents were obtained by independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi: The Lapsus$ hackers used compromised credentials to break into the network of customer service giant Sitel in January, days before subsequently accessing the internal systems of authentication giant Okta, according to documents seen by TechCrunch that…
Four HIPAA Enforcement Actions Hold Healthcare Providers Accountable With Compliance
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the resolution of three investigations and one matter before an Administration Law Judge related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. Two of these cases are part of OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access…