The Fresno Unified School District experienced a breach when they discovered in March that specific storage media used to perform computer backups was missing from storage. According to their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office, the missing storage media contained names and Social Security numbers. The notification does not mention whether this was just employee…
Advisories are published, but are enough entities reading them and taking precautions?
Three advisories have been released this week about threat actor groups. One involves ALTDOS, one involves HIVE, and one involves the “OnePercent Group,” whose name may not sound familiar to many. ALTDOS (Joint Advisory) It appears that ALTDOS is getting some serious attention from Singapore’s CSA and other agencies in Singapore. These threat actors who…
Metro Infectious Disease Consultants Notifies 171,740 Individuals of Privacy Incident
On June 24, 2021, Metro Infectious Disease Consultant (MIDC) learned that some individuals’ personal information could have been accessed when an unauthorized third party gained access to certain employees’ email accounts. MIDC has no reason to believe that anyone’s personal information has been misused for the purpose of committing fraud or identity theft or that…
La Puente man impersonated Apple customer support to steal 620,000 iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women
Michael Finnegan reports: A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos in a plot to steal and share images of nude young women, federal authorities say. Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of La Puente, has agreed to plead guilty to four felonies, including…
Educational institution ROC Mondriaan in The Hague victim of major cyber attack
CrimeInfo.nl reports: The ROC Mondriaan educational institution in The Hague was hacked last weekend. All computers are down, which means that employees and students cannot access their files. The school is doing everything it can to get the system up and running again by next Monday. The MBO school has started a forensic investigation into the…
NL: Data leak at Radboudumc hospital was caused by former employee
This is a Google translation of a story in Dutch: The data breach at Radboudumc in Nijmegen is due to a former employee, the hospital reports in an update . Due to the leak, the data of an unknown number of employees is on the street. The hospital discovered the data breach earlier this month. Names, login names, email addresses and…