Data Breach News, News
November 21, 2023
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Cyberattacks at two Canadian government contractors affect former and current government employees, including RCMP and Defense

Bleeping Computer reports: The Canadian government says two of its contractors have been hacked, exposing sensitive information belonging to an undisclosed number of government employees.  These breaches occurred last month and impacted Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) and SIRVA Worldwide Relocation & Moving Services, both providers of relocation services to Canadian government employees.  Government-related information stored […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
November 21, 2023
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Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals

Bleeping Computer reports: The former chief operating officer of a cybersecurity company has pleaded guilty to hacking two hospitals, part of the Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC), in June 2021 to boost his company’s business. Vikas Singla, who worked for Securolytics, a network security company that provided services to the healthcare industry, pleaded guilty to hacking […]

Data Breach News, News
November 21, 2023
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Rhysida Hackers Demand £602,500 in Bitcoin After British Library Ransomware Attack

The420 reports: A lethal cyber attack has rocked the revered British Library, leaving its IT systems crippled for weeks. The brazen ransomware gang, known as the Rhysida group, has claimed responsibility for the attack, demanding a hefty sum of 20 Bitcoin, equivalent to approximately £602,500, for the return of stolen sensitive data, including employee passport […]

Data Breach News, News
November 18, 2023
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‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks

The Guardian reports: Six Group counts its profit in millions, but the financial pipework it controls moves billions. Its operations, which include the Spanish and Swiss stock exchanges, count as critical national infrastructure and this gives it a close relationship with governments and regulators in Madrid and Zurich. Those relationships are critical in an age […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
November 18, 2023
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9 million patients had data stolen after US medical transcription firm hacked

Breaches at third-party vendors or business associates continue to compromise millions of patients’ information in 2023. TechCrunch reports: Close to nine million patients had highly sensitive personal and health information stolen during a cyberattack on a U.S. medical transcription service earlier this year, representing one of the worst medical-related data breaches in recent times. The […]

Data Breach News, Finance, Malware Ransomware
November 18, 2023
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And Then There Were Three: Two More Financial Firms Attacked by LockBit3.0

Bloomberg reports: The criminal ransomware gang behind the recent attack on the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. has claimed responsibility for two more hacks on US financial firms. The Lockbit gang added the Chicago Trading Company and Alphadyne Asset Management this week to a list of victims on its darkweb page. The gang has given them deadlines to make […]

Data Breach News
November 16, 2023
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Official City of Long Beach Statement Regarding a Network Security Incident Targeting City Systems

Local governments continue to fall prey to cyberattacks. Yesterday, the City of Long Beach, California issued an official Statement Regarding a Network Security Incident Targeting City Systems: On Nov. 14, 2023, the City of Long Beach learned that it was subject to a potential cybersecurity incident. The City’s Department of Technology and Innovation immediately initiated […]

Data Breach News
November 16, 2023
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Samsung says hackers accessed customer data during year-long breach

TechCrunch reports: Samsung has admitted that hackers accessed the personal data of U.K.-based customers during a year-long breach of its systems. In a statement to TechCrunch, Samsung spokesperson Chelsea Simpson, representing the company via a third-party agency, said Samsung was “recently alerted to a security incident” that “resulted in certain contact information of some Samsung […]

Data Breach News, News
November 14, 2023
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North Carolina County Calls in National Guard After Cyber Attack

What happens when a state bans ransom payments and a county then suffers a cyber attack? A North Carolina county is not saying whether the cyber attack they experienced was a ransomware attack, but they are following the state’s guidelines for how they are responding. The Record reports: A cyberattack on a North Carolina county […]

Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware
November 14, 2023
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FBI: Royal ransomware asked 350 victims to pay $275 million

Bleeping Computer reports: The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory that the Royal ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least 350 organizations worldwide since September 2022. In an update to the original advisory published in March with additional information discovered during FBI investigations, the two agencies also noted that the ransomware […]