DNA testing biz vows to improve infosec after criminals break into database it didn’t know it had

A DNA diagnostics company will pay $400,000 and tighten its security in the wake of a 2021 attack where criminals broke into its network and swiped personal data on over two million people from a nine-year-old “legacy” database the company Read More …

Suffolk County starting to restore online services amid months-long cyberattack

Suffolk County has been suffering through a massive cyberattack for months, but progress has been made to restore security. Social security numbers of 26,000 county employees and drivers license numbers of 470,000 were exposed or accessed. Read more… Source: MSN Read More …

Play Ransomware lists A10 Networks on its leak site

The Play ransomware group listed networking firm A10 Networks in its leak site, after briefly gaining access to its IT infrastructure, according to data breach notifications firm BetterCyber. BetterCyber notes that the leak site claims the group has “private and Read More …

Ransomware crooks steal 3m+ patients’ medical records, personal info

Several California medical groups have sent security breach notification letters to more than three million patients alerting them that crooks may have stolen a ton of their sensitive health and personal information during a ransomware infection in December. According to Read More …

SNP MP Stewart McDonald’s emails hacked by Russian group

An MP has told the BBC his emails have been stolen and he fears they will be made public. The SNP’s Stewart McDonald said the hack took place in January and he wanted to pre-empt any publication sharing them. Read Read More …

US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online

Nearly 3,000 immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have been released from custody after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials inadvertently published their personal information online. Records including names, birth dates, nationalities and detention locations of 6,252 immigrants were Read More …

Hacker finds copy of TSA no-fly list on exposed cloud storage

A copy of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s “no-fly list” has been found by a Swiss hacker exposed on the open internet in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. First reported by The Daily Dot, the exposure of the Read More …

LAUSD says Vice Society ransomware gang stole contractors’ SSNs

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the United States, says the Vice Society ransomware gang has stolen files containing contractors’ personal information, including Social Security Numbers (SSNs). LAUSD also revealed that the threat actors were Read More …