The following is a machine translation of an article by Felipe Payão: Lojas Renner allegedly had its system infected by ransomware this Thursday afternoon (19th). According to images posted on social networks, the company is already being extorted for the amount of US$ 1 billion to release the files, around R$ 5.4 billion at the current…
BREAKING: Data including SSN and DOB allegedly from 70M AT&T customers listed for sale on popular forum
Update 1: Well, this is interesting. The thread has been deleted. Was ShinyHunters scamming or is something else up? Right now, it looked like it was a scam, but I received a message from Shiny that an admin had deleted the thread, so still stay tuned, I guess. Update 2: Another mod has since restored…
Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system that trolled country’s supreme leader
Graham Cluley reports: On 9 July, Iran’s railroad system came under attack from hackers. The attackers posted messages on station departure boards warning of “long delay[s] because of cyberattack”, and suggesting inconvenienced passengers call “64411” for more information. 64411 is reportedly the telephone number of the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. With…
Liquid Exchange Hacked– tens of millions of dollars removed
CoinQuora reports: Japanese Exchange Liquid Global suffered a massive hack on Thursday morning. As per reports, hackers removed up to $80 million in digital assets from the platform. The exchange shared the horrific announcement in a tweet. They also exposed wallet addresses implicated in the breach. Read more on CoinQuora. Others estimate the losses as even…
A bug in a medical startup’s website put thousands of COVID-19 test results at risk
Zack Whittaker reports: A California-based medical startup that provides COVID-19 testing across Los Angeles has pulled down a website it used to allow customers to access their test results after a customer found a vulnerability that allowed access to other people’s personal information. Total Testing Solutions has 10 COVID-19 testing sites across Los Angeles, and processes…
Data breach from contact tracing survey ‘low risk’ to Hoosier privacy, 750,000 affected
WANE reports: The Indiana Department of Health announced Tuesday it is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers that data from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey was improperly accessed back in July. The data included name, address, email, gender, ethnicity and race, and date of birth. “We believe the risk to Hoosiers whose information was accessed…