Claire Cardona reports: Multiple terabytes of Dallas Police Department data are missing and may be unrecoverable after being deleted during a data migration process in April, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. District Attorney John Creuzot said in a disclosure notice to defense attorneys Wednesday that the city had learned in April that…
Current and former North Carolina state employees notified of unintended exposure of file on intranet
From the no-need-to-hack-when-it’s-leaking dept., state edition, the North Carolina Department of Information Technology and Office of State Human Resources are notifying 84,860 current or former state agency employees that a file with their name and SSN was uploaded by mistake to a state intranet site accessed by more than 65,000 authenticated users: We are writing…
Hackers stole client info, work materials in Accenture ransomware attack
Tim Starks reports: Ransomware hackers began leaking Accenture data after the consulting giant suffered a security incident where the perpetrators made off with client-related documents and work materials. The gang, known as LockBit 2.0, has threatened to leak further after providing purported proof of the breach. Accenture acknowledged the attack on Wednesday, but has downplayed…
Crypto hacker offered reward after $600m heist
Joe Tidy provides an update on one of the weirdest hacking stories in my recent memory: someone makes a huge heist of cryptocurrency, sends messages to the world and returns the funds, says they did it for fun, and turns down a reward they were offered. A hacker who stole just over $600m (£433m) worth…
AlphaBay OG announces comeback
Wow. Ionut Ilascu reports: The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend. At the same time, the admin announced plans for setting up a platform for darknet markets to set up shop with a strong focus on anonymity. Read more on BleepingComputer.
SynAck ransomware gang releases decryption keys for old victims
Catalin Cimpanu reports has this exclusive: The El_Cometa ransomware gang, formerly known as SynAck, has released today master decryption keys for the victims they infected between July 2017 and early 2021. The leaked keys were provided to The Record earlier today by an individual who identified themselves as a member of the former SynAck group. Read more…