Raphael Satter reports: A leak site says it has been given reams of data about the donors to the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate truckers after the fundraising platform popular with supporters of the movement allegedly suffered a hack. Distributed Denial of Secrets announced on its website that it had 30 megabytes of donor information from Christian…
Cydia Dev Discloses Ethereum L2 Bug — Optimism Attacker Could Have ‘Printed an Arbitrary Quantity of Tokens’
Jamie Redman reports: On February 10, the well-known developer of Cydia and iOS Jailbreak, Jay Freeman, otherwise known as Saurik, published a Twitter thread about a bug he found in the Layer-2 (L2) scaling protocol known as Optimism. According to Freeman, the vulnerability, which has been patched, could have allowed an attacker to create an…
National Math and Science Initiative notifies more than 190,000 of data security incident
The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) in Texas describes itself as a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve U.S. student performance in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. According to their notification letter, on or about October 13, 2021, their AV software triggered an alert. Through the resulting investigation, NMSI determined…
San Francisco 49ers confirm ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that encrypted files on its corporate IT network, a spokesperson for the team has told The Record. The team confirmed the attack earlier today after the operators of the BlackByte ransomware listed the team as one of their victims on…
CaptureRx seeks court approval of lawsuit settlement; threatens to consider bankruptcy if not approved (updated)
Updated March 8: According to the TopClassActions website, the court has granted preliminary approval to a $4.75 million settlement between CaptureRX and consumers in six separate class-action lawsuits that all accused the pharmacy giant of negligence after a 2021 data breach: California residents whose information was stored with CaptureRX can submit claims of up to…
FL: Jackson County Hospital District notifying patients of data breach
UPDATED May 17, 2022: This incident was reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as affecting 98,746 patients. The “501” marker submitted to HHS on February 11, 2022 has not yet been updated on HHS’s website. Another disclosure heading into the weekend, but credit to them for getting a notification within one month of discovery. …