Tag Archives: Data breaches

Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks

reader comments 73 with 53 posters participating Share this story A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District as punishment for rebuffing demands it pay the group a hefty fee to recover data stolen during a recent cyber intrusion. Ransomware operators breach targets’… Read More: Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says… »

Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million accounts

Getty Images reader comments 23 with 20 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile on Wednesday said criminals obtained the personal information of almost 49 million current, former, or prospective customers in the latest mega-hack of its servers. The haul includes customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information for 7.8… Read More: Hackers who breached T-Mobile stole personal data for ~49 million… »

Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks

reader comments 14 with 11 posters participating Share this story Morgan Stanley suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data, and it became the latest known casualty of hackers exploiting a series of now-patched vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA, a widely used third-party file-transfer service. The data obtained included names, addresses dates of birth, social… Read More: Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA… »

EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it online

reader comments 65 with 54 posters participating Share this story Game-maker Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine are responding to an event they had both been dreading: the theft of gigabytes of private data by hackers who breached their Internet-connected networks. In EA’s case, the theft included 780GB of source code… Read More: EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it… »

Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Network devices maker Ubiquiti has been covering up the severity of a data breach that puts customers’ hardware at risk of unauthorized access, KrebsOnSecurity has reported, citing an unnamed whistleblower inside the company. In January, the maker of routers, Internet-connected cameras, and other networked devices, disclosed what it said was “unauthorized… Read More: Ubiquiti breach puts countless cloud-based devices at risk of takeover »