Data Breach

LightBasin Hacking Group Breaches 13 Global Telecoms In Two Years A group of hackers that security researchers call LightBasin has been compromising mobile telecommunication systems across the world for the past five years. Since 2019, the group hacked into more than a dozen telecommunication companies and maintained persistence through custom Read more…

Man Gets 7 years In Prison For Hacking 65K Health Care Employees Justin Sean Johnson, also known as TheDearthStar and Dearthy Star, was sentenced this week to seven years in prison for the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). After breaching UPMC’s human resources databases, Read more…

Accenture Confirms Data Breach After August Ransomware Attack Global IT consultancy giant Accenture confirmed that LockBit ransomware operators stole data from its systems during an attack that hit the company’s systems in August 2021. This was revealed in the company’s financial report for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended Read more…

Acer Confirms Breach Of After-sales Service Systems In India Taiwanese computer giant Acer has confirmed that its after-sales service systems in India were recently breached in what the company called “an isolated attack.” “Upon detection, we immediately initiated our security protocols and conducted a full scan of our systems. We Read more…

Australia To Tackle Ransomware Data Breaches By Deleting Stolen Files Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs has announced the “Australian Government’s Ransomware Action Plan,” which is a set of new measures the country will adopt in an attempt to tackle the rising threat. Ransomware is a global problem, and Australian businesses Read more…

Microsoft: Iran-linked Hackers Target US Defense Tech Companies Iran-linked threat actors are targeting the Office 365 tenants of US and Israeli defense technology companies in extensive password spraying attacks. In password spray attacks, threat actors attempt to brute-force accounts by using the same passwords across multiple accounts simultaneously, which allows them Read more…

Twitch: No Credentials Or Card Numbers Exposed In Data Breach Twitch says that no login credentials and credit card numbers belonging to users or streamers were exposed following yesterday’s massive data leak. The company added that the attackers could gain access to the stolen data due to a faulty Twitch Read more…

U.S. Govt To Sue Contractors Who Hide Breach Incidents Under the new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that the U.S. Department of Justice announced today, government contractors are accountable in a civil court if they don’t report a breach or fail to meet required cybersecurity standards. The initiative gives the DoJ the Read more…

Fired IT Admin Revenge-hacks School By Wiping Data, Changing Passwords A 29-year old wiped data on systems of a secondary school in the U.K. and changed the passwords at an IT company, in retaliatory cyber attacks for being fired. As a result of his actions, the school’s systems could no Read more…

Transnational Fraud Ring Stole Millions From Army Members, Veterans Fredrick Brown, a former U.S. Army contractor, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison after admitting to his role in a conspiracy that targeted thousands of U.S. service members and veterans and caused millions of dollars in losses. Brown was Read more…