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Audrey Liza M. Nolasco reports: Japan is confronting a mounting cybersecurity crisis, with a ransomware attack disrupting hundreds of organisations and a series of separate breaches putting millions of customer records at risk. One alarming detail: experts estimate that stolen Japanese driver’s licence images could be offered on dark-web markets for as little as ¥25,... Source
Bojan Lepic reports: A cyber extortion group has threatened to publish data it claims it stole from 38 shipping, port, and logistics companies unless they pay multimillion-dollar ransoms by October 19. Cybersecurity firm SOCRadar said the group, known as n0n, added the 38 organisations to its dark web leak site in a single batch on... Source
Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker claiming that more than 80 million patient records have been exfiltrated. Threat actor ByteToBreach, which has attacked other major entities across Africa, including major targets in Nigeria, claimed responsibility for the breach. The... Source
UpGuard provides another entry for our “No need to hack when it’s leaking” files. This time, it’s Liberating Research. On August 31, Greg Pollock from UpGuard contacted DataBreaches.net to report a data leak they discovered containing sensitive medical information on almost 100,000 people. By agreement, we both delayed publication to give the responsible firm time... Source
Back in the day, when my co-author and I would conduct training workshops on neurobehavioral disorders in children and teens, we would always introduce our presentation with an overhead that said, “Two Professionals. Three Opinions.” That remains true for so many controversial or contentious topics. This week, Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile tackled questions... Source
David Hollingsworth reports: The operator of a global suite of cancer care providers has confirmed that patient data has been affected by a data breach involving Australia’s largest cancer care provider, the Icon Cancer Centre. “Icon Oncology Group is managing a data breach incident involving unauthorised access to some patient information held on a supplier’s... Source
AFP reports: Major French supermarket chains Intermarche and Cooperative U were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to defrost, the two retailers told AFP Monday. Some 150-200 Intermarche shops were targeted, along with almost 100 Cooperative U outlets, in the attack, they said. Paris prosecutors confirmed the attack, which reportedly also hit other... Source
40 + 40=80. That’s how old Raheim Hamilton will be when he gets out of prison if he serves his full sentence. There’s an update to a previously reported case. October 7, CHICAGO — A Virginia man who co-created and operated “Empire Market”—a dark web marketplace that enabled users to anonymously buy and sell illegal... Source
When asked about the “Luna Moth Files” that had mysteriously appeared online, Silent Ransom Group called them “fake” and insisted they hadn’t had any leak or breach. But they had. Here’s what we know. When the “Luna Moth Files” appeared on an onion site without anyone claiming responsibility or explaining their origin, DataBreaches asked a... Source
Ritzau has more on the Denmark Central Person Register (CPR) breach that affected more than 5 million living Danes and 3 million deceased: At least three accounts at the company linked to a major breach of Denmark’s CPR register reportedly used the password “123456”, including an administrator account. At least three user accounts at the... Source
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