The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced yesterday that Matthew D. Lane, 19, a student at Assumption University in Worcester, Mass., was charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with hacking into the computer networks of two U.S.-based companies and extorting the companies for ransoms. The two companies were not named in the Information […]
Hundreds of former subpostmasters are to be compensated by the Post Office after it accidentally leaked their names and addresses online last year. Some data leaks are more sensitive or problematic than others. A leak on the Post Office’s site is one of the more problematic ones. The Bolton News reports: The Post Office confirmed […]
The Sun reports that Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has denied a claim that its online service system was hacked and held hostage to a ransom demand of USD $55 million (RM236.17 million): Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Seri Dr Maimunah Mohd Sharif said DBKL’s online service system had indeed experienced technical disruptions but there was […]
The Guardian reports that a significant cyberattack affecting the Legal Aid Agency in the UK affects both legal aid applicants and legal aid providers: The personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales dating back to 2010, including criminal records and financial details, has been accessed and downloaded in a “significant” […]
LBC reports that a major UK supermarket supplier that stocks Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi has been ‘held to ransom’ by hackers: Peter Green Chilled was hit by the ‘cyber incident’ on Wednesday evening last week. The supplier said no orders would be processed on Thursday, although any order prepared on Wednesday would be sent. Managing […]
TechCrunch reports: Pharmaceutical maker Regeneron announced Monday it will buy genetic testing company 23andMe for $256 million following a bankruptcy auction. Regeneron said it will acquire 23andMe’s genomics service and its bank of 15 million customers’ personal and genetic data as part of the deal. The pharma giant said it plans to use the 23andMe customer data […]
The Register reports: The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. But the caller wasn’t actually a company employee. He was a Scattered Spider criminal trying to break into the retailer’s systems – and he was really good, according to Jon […]
The Register reports: A ransomware attack at a Middle Eastern business partner of payroll company ADP has led to customer data theft at Broadcom, The Register has learned. It’s understood Broadcom’s HR department has begun the process of informing current and former staff who are affected by the September ransomware attack at Business Systems House (BSH). Broadcom […]
Brian Krebs reports: In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. “Pompompurin,” is slated for resentencing next month […]
Footnotes in CrowdStrike’s forensics report offer troubling details of Deloitte’s handling of incident logs. Rhode Island Current reports that the attack on RIBridges triggered hundreds of firewall alerts during the five months that attackers were in the network and were transferring gigabytes of data. But the state’s vendor, Deloitte, did not know the system had […]
