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 […]
There is an update to the Wynn Resorts data breach previously reported in February. At the time, ShinyHunters claimed to have exfiltrated 800,000 records containing customer and employee data, and they threatened to leak the data if Wynn Resorts didn’t pay the ransom demand. Now Cybernews reports that a Wynn Resorts notification to the Maine […]
Financial Times reports: A global surge in ransomware attacks has driven the rise of specialist negotiators who are skilled at buying time, gathering intelligence and cutting deals with hackers. Professional ransom negotiators have become a booming part of the cyber security industry as businesses seek help for high-stake talks with criminal gangs. Large cyber security […]
Social Media Today reports: Meta has paused all contracts with data provider Mercor after Mercor’s systems were hit by hackers last week, which could have compromised data integrity. As reported by Wired, on Thursday Mercor confirmed that its services had been targeted as part of an expanded supply-chain exploit, which was traced back to the use of LiteLLM, a widely […]
