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Accenture strikes $4.18 billion cybersecurity deal, shares fall on forecast cut
Reuters reports: Consultancy firm Accenture (ACN.N), opens new tab said on Thursday it would take a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero and device security specialist NetRise in a combined deal valued at $4.18 billion. … The acquisitions will expand Accenture’s cybersecurity business into software for protecting industrial operations […]
Panic in Brazil after hacker triggers nationwide mobile alert
News AZ reports: Brazil’s government is investigating a suspected cyberattack after a bizarre, unauthorized emergency alert woke citizens across multiple states early Saturday morning. The country’s National Protection and Civil Defense Secretariat confirmed that the national notification system was completely shut down around 1:30 a.m. local time, News.Az reports, citing Reuters. The emergency shutdown was triggered immediately after […]
Houston pediatric clinic breach last summer affected 41,485 Texans
Chron reports: Read more at Chron. The medical group does not explain why it took them so long to notify patients. No group has publicly claimed responsibility for the breach, and the data has not appeared on any leak site that The Data Breach Times checked.
Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real
The Register reports: Six people suspected of bank helpdesk fraud are in custody after Dutch cops stormed an Amsterdam residence and caught them in conversation with a potential victim. Police say the individuals were aged between 15 and 30 and operated out of a makeshift call center they had established in an Amsterdam home. Authorities […]
How a massive password-cracking operation spilled credentials for thousands of orgs
Ars Technica reports: Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet itself. Nearly 74,000 Fortinet devices from more than 21,000 IP addresses in 194 countries […]
Nintendo responds after alleged third-party data breach: Our ‘systems have not been compromised’
Mashable reports: Nintendo of North America says it’s aware of what’s been described as a small third-party data breach affecting some of its employees. “Nintendo’s systems have not been compromised,” the company told Mashable in a statement, acknowledging that a third-party service was affected by an “issue.” Earlier this week, a hacking group calling itself ShadowByte$ […]
iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info
Bleeping Computer reports: Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients’ personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2 billion hours of curated heartbeat data from over 12 million patients. In a filing with the […]
One threat actor demanded $50 million from Novo Nordisk. Another one demanded $25 million. Neither got paid.
DataBreaches.net reports that Novo Nordisk wasn’t attacked by just one criminal group but by two. The first group was FulcrumSec, who first contacted Novo Nordisk on June 1. After Novo Nordisk stopped responding to them, FulcrumSec leaked some of the data, providing DataBreaches.net with some exclusive material revealing how they approached the pharmaceutical giant. The […]