Singapore authorities make record recovery thanks to cooperation with Timor Leste through INTERPOL LYON, France: A global stop-payment mechanism developed by INTERPOL has helped Singapore authorities make their largest ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise scam. On 23 July 2024, a commodity firm based in Singapore filed a police report stating…
Six U.S. hospital breach reports from July; some have flown under the media radar (1)
Although DataBreaches does not report on all incidents involving U.S. healthcare entities, a log is kept to calculate statistics for the annual Breach Barometer report produced by Protenus, Inc. For the month of July, DataBreaches noted the following six U.S. hospitals disclosed breaches or were claimed as victims by threat actors. Some of these incidents…
Cyberattack disrupts 911 service
Dakota Morrissiey reports: A reported cyberattack disrupted 9-1-1 service at dispatch centers in the Highland Lakes and across Central Texas for over five hours on Sunday, Aug. 4. Emergency calls were rerouted during the incident and full service restored by Sunday evening. Marble Falls, Burnet County, and Llano County dispatch centers were among those impacted…
Crypto-wallet service seized for helping ransomware gangs launder stolen funds
Risky Biz News reports: German and US authorities have seized a crypto-wallet service named Cryptonator on charges of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money service business. The service allowed individuals to set up crypto-wallet funds that could receive and send funds from and to any type of blockchain service, effectively operating as a “personal…
Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says
Cassandre Coyer reports: Jerico Pictures Inc., a background-check company doing business as National Public Data, exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion individuals in an April data breach, a proposed class action says. On April 8, a cybercriminal group by the name of USDoD posted a database entitled “National Public Data” on a dark…
4.6 Million Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor
VpnMentor reports that researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered 13 non-password-protected databases that contained 4.6 million documents, including voter records, ballots, multiple lists, and election-related records. Through his research, Fowler found that the data was owned by Platinum Technology Resource/Platinum Elections Services. Once I was reasonably sure who managed the database, I sent a responsible disclosure notice…