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…
Data breach at US waste management firm exposes employees’ healthcare details
Emma Woollacott reports: A data breach at US waste management firm Waste Management Resources has exposed the healthcare information of current and former employees, as well as their dependents. The company says that on January 21, it discovered signs of suspicious activity. “We immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists, to determine…
Cyberattack hits vaccine records for thousands of Durham Region children
John Woodward reports: The personal information of more than three thousand children in daycares throughout Durham Region was stolen in a cyberattack early this year that CTV News Toronto has learned is larger than previously known. That data from some 80 daycares, which also included the detailed vaccination records of some 200 children, was recently…
Brooklyn Tech students uncovered a NYC schools data breach.
Pooja Salhotra reports: Teachers’ social security numbers, student academic records, and families’ home addresses are among the dozens of pieces of information a group of tech savvy high school students stumbled across on Google Drive this year. The documents — many of which contained confidential information — were leaked because of a quirk in the…
Nl: Not all victims of the GGD Covid data theft were informed
NL Times reports: There are many more people whose data was leaked from the GGD in January than the 1,250 people the GGD reported, according to RTL Nieuws. Not all people whose data was stolen and possibly sold on the internet have been notified about what happened to their private information, the news outlet stated….