WCED News reports: The parent company of Penelec and other electric companies in our state, the First Energy Corporation, is requiring all customers to reset their passwords due to a security breach. First Energy disabled the online accounts and asked customers to reset the passwords on Friday after detecting hackers making numerous unauthorized attempts to…
Th: Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’
Online reporters and Sunthorn Kongwarakom report: Officials have rushed to downplay the theft by a hacker of more than 10,000 patients’ personal details from Phetchabun Hospital, describing the information as “not important”. Phetchabun governor Krit Kongmuang was among those who responded to initial reports on social media that the data of 16 million patients of…
Ma: Personal Data of 2 Million Moroccans Leaked Online
Oumaima Latrech reports: Personal data of more than 2 million Moroccans was leaked by hackers, said the French cyber security website Zataz, on September 3. Read more on Morocco World News. Some of the data is reportedly culled from a LinkedIn data set that had been leaked previously, but some appears to possibly be from…
ALTDOS claims some of their servers were seized but they did not lose data
It would be great if the good guys had backups as good as the threat actors have. Threat actors who call themselves “ALTDOS” have re-emerged after a brief hiatus that had left this site wondering if something had happened to them following a joint advisory about them. ALTDOS has attacked a number of ASEAN firms,…
TrickBot gang member arrested after getting stuck in South Korea due to COVID-19 pandemic
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Russian man was arrested last week at the Seoul international airport on accusations of developing code for the TrickBot malware gang. The man, identified in local media reports only as Mr. A, was arrested trying to leave South Korea for his native home in Russia after he’d been stuck in the…
Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc. Provides Notice Of Data Privacy Event
From the I-have-questions department: Nevada Restaurant Services reported that they experienced a breach in January of this year and that the threat actor was able to copy some of their files. The type of data varied by person but the notification stated that the scope of information potentially involved includes individuals’ name, date of birth,…