The Record reports: A British hacker pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. federal court to participating in a sweeping cybercrime campaign that siphoned at least $8 million in cryptocurrency from companies and individuals, federal prosecutors said. Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count […]
Cybernews reports: Vercel, a cloud platform and maintainer of Next.js, a major web development framework, has been hacked, and hackers are selling access to credentials that could help pull off “the largest supply chain attack ever if done right.” An OAuth token, granting too many permissions, became a single point of failure. Vercel acknowledged that […]
Will P3 wind up on a vendors not to be trusted list? DataBreaches.net reports: P3 Global Intel advertises itself as a “fully integrated and state-of-the-art tip acquisition and tip management solution that has quickly become the leading choice of Crime Stoppers Programs, Law Enforcement Agencies, Campus Safety Programs, and Federal Agency Initiatives.” 35,000 U.S. schools use P3 Campus, which […]
On April 8, The Record reported: The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday announced that hackers gained access to a Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office digital storage system containing sensitive police documents. The LAPD described the documents as materials that had been turned over in discovery from previously resolved or settled LAPD civil litigation cases. […]
The Crypto Citizens Network reports on a somewhat different breach tactic where threat actors made a video of internal systems and threaten to leak the videos if their payment demands are not met. Kraken is standing firm that it won’t pay: In crypto, breaches usually start with code. This one didn’t. Kraken, one of the […]
ABC (Australia) reports: Some Booking.com customers are being warned their personal information may have been accessed by unauthorised third parties, prompting fresh concerns about the security of travellers’ data. The company operates more than 28 million accommodation listings globally, connecting travellers to hotels, apartments and other properties across hundreds of countries, as well as flights, […]
APB Live reports: A ransomware group known as ShinyHunters has added Rockstar Games to its dark web leak site, threatening to publish or sell stolen data if the gaming giant does not pay up. Rockstar Games has confirmed the breach, linking it to a third-party vendor, and says only a limited amount of non-material company […]
DataBreaches.net reports: On January 12, Valley Family Health Care (VFHC) notified HHS after learning that the TriZetto Provider Solutions (TPS) breach had affected 4,300 of their patients. The TPS breach, which began in November 2024, involved their patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance member numbers (including Medicare beneficiary identifiers), health insurer names, […]
A cybersecurity incident knocked out key systems, canceling chemotherapy appointments, closing pharmacies and pushing Brockton Hospital to divert ambulances while staff switch to paper records MassLive reports: Brockton Hospital is diverting ambulances and canceling some services as it responds to a cybersecurity incident that began impacting its information systems on Monday. Chemotherapy infusion services for […]
Legal Cheek reports: Jones Day has become the latest high-profile law firm to fall victim to a cyber attack, after hackers accessed files linked to a number of client matters. The US firm — which represented Donald Trump in both his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and has placed several of its lawyers into senior White […]
