National Mortgage Professional reports: First American Financial Corporation was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, the company confirmed Thursday, forcing the company to take certain systems offline. The incident follows similar breaches at Fidelity National Financial (FNF), the mortgage and real estate industries’ largest underwriter of title insurance, on Nov. 19, and Mr. Cooper Group, one of the […]
The Straits Times reports: Another South Korean government-run online service suffered an outage on Nov 24, marking the fourth such failure within the past week. A website and mobile applications providing online ID services went down, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The breakdown in the government’s e-ID service on Nov 24 […]
As The Data Breach Times noted on November 12, the founder of the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange offered to pay the thieves who stole an estimated $120 million from the exchange $5 million if they returned the rest of the funds. The hacker(s) didn’t respond at all. The government and ransomware experts repeatedly advise and urge […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Aerospace giant Boeing is investigating a cyberattack that impacted its parts and distribution business after the LockBit ransomware gang claimed that they breached the company’s network and stole data. Boeing says the incident did not impact flight safety and confirmed collaboration with law enforcement and regulatory agencies as part of an ongoing […]
As an article in DarkReading highlights, it’s tempting to compare the incident responses by MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment to their recent cyberattacks because both are the same kind of entity and both were victims of the same threat actors (Scattered Spider/AlphV). But: Caesars quickly negotiated with the cyberattackers, and handed over a $15 million ransom payout, which […]
Hotel and casino operator MGM Resorts is dealing with a cyberattack that has somewhat sent it back into the digital dark ages at multiple properties and locations. On September 11, MGM Resorts posted a statement on its Twitter account confirming that it was dealing with what it described as a cybersecurity incident. They did not […]
A UK-based Retail Management and EPOS Solutions provider called Swan Retail was the victim of a cyberattack that has significantly disrupted about 300 retail companies. The type of attack was not disclosed. Read more of this article by DEEBA AHMED at Hackread.com.
BakerHostetler: 2023 Data Security Incident Response Report
BakerHostetler law firm is well-known for data breach incident response. They write, “Three years ago we set a new industry standard by creating our Digital Assets and Data Management (DADM) practice group, which now has more than 100 attorneys and technologists. Every year we organize and publish our collective insights in this report. It is […]