404 Media reports: John Binns, a U.S. citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey, is linked to the massive data breach of metadata belonging to nearly all of AT&T’s customers that the telecommunications giant announced on Friday, three sources independently told 404 Media. The breach, in which hackers stole call and text records from a […]
The Verge reports that self-described hacktivists claim to have snagged internal messages from Disney: Over a terabyte of data supposedly obtained from Disney’s internal messaging channels has been leaked online by a self-proclaimed “hacktivist group,” including login credentials, code, images, and information about unreleased projects. The anonymous group calling itself Nullbulge has claimed responsibility for the […]
In May 2024, mSpy suffered a data breach when unknown individuals managed to steal millions of customer support tickets. Customer data from the phone tracking app back to 2014 was involved. TechCrunch analyzed the leaked dataset — more than 100 gigabytes of Zendesk records — and reports: Some of the email addresses belong to unwitting […]
TechCrunch reports on another big breach related to the Snowflake incident: U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. In a statement, AT&T said that the […]
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The education sector continues to be a soft target for threat actors. The Record reports: The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences announced on Monday it was targeted by “a serious hacker attack” that has led to a total shutdown of its IT systems. It is the latest in a string of disruptive cyber incidents to […]
vpnMentor reports: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained 38.6 million records belonging to Rapid Legal — a legal support services company that offers court filing, process serving, and document retrieval services for law firms, legal departments, and self-represented litigants. The database contained court documents, service agreements, and payment […]
More than 6,000 operations and appointments have been postponed at London hospitals affected by the Synnovis cyber attack, NHS England has confirmed. Digital Health reports that on 4 July 2024, NHSE published an update on the ransomware attack. The update indicated that 4,913 acute outpatient appointments and 1,391 elective procedures have been postponed at King’s […]
It seems that those involved in hacking Snowflake customers like Ticketmaster took a second look at the data they acquired, did a little happy dance, and upped their extortion demands. They may have danced too soon. Bleeping Computer reports: Hackers have leaked what they claim is Ticketmaster barcode data for 166,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour […]
AT&T Allegedly Pays Ransom After Snowflake Account Breach
“What will it take for victims of ransomware, extortion and other types of cybercrime to stop directly funding their attackers?” That’s the great question posed by BankInfoSecurity after WIRED reported AT&T paid hackers $370,000 to delete the data they had stolen. BankinfoSecurity reports: How many of the approximately 165 victims of the campaign targeting Snowflake […]