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The sensitive data of students, faculties, and staff of Guilford College in North Carolina have been compromised after ransomware actors hacked into the school’s servers. According to the school’s spokesperson, the cyberattack happened in October. Upon learning of the intrusion, authorities and security experts were notified immediately to aid with the cyberattack. The North Carolina...Continue Reading

The LockBit 3.0 cybercriminal gang claimed the recent ransomware attack, which has taken down the services and email account of a small town in Canada. The ransomware actors have given the city at least a week to provide their asked ransom. The affected town is called Westmount, a small Quebec City home to more than...Continue Reading

The Russian media and internet regulator Roskomnadzor said on November 19 that their systems were breached by hackers, who they believe were the work of the Belarusian cybercriminal gang ‘Cyber Partisans’. However, reports revealed that the hackers have not accessed sensitive information and that its workstations were not encrypted. A day before Roskomnadzor announced the...Continue Reading

The Whoosh scooter-sharing service company in Russia has shared that they have suffered a data breach attack against their systems after the attackers started to sell the stolen data on a hacking forum. Based on reports, the hackers offer online a database that contains the information of more than seven million customers. Whoosh is one...Continue Reading

Dropbox revealed experiencing a security breach due to an attack involving threat actors stealing 130 code repositories from one of its employee’s GitHub accounts prompted by a phishing attack. The file-hosting firm’s security team detected the breach on October 14 when GitHub sent an alert one day after the initial attack. Based on Dropbox’s released...Continue Reading

The federal agency in the state of Indiana that gives low-income housing for the people faces a ransomware attack that compromised its ability to disseminate rent payments to landlords. Based on reports, the housing agency employees lost access to the email accounts during the campaign that started weeks ago. Marcia Lewis, an executive director for...Continue Reading

Australia reports another cyberattack incident following a security breach at the Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) that affected over 223,000 user accounts. According to the report, ACL’s Medlab Pathology business was breached by an unidentified entity that compromised its internal database. Additionally, the ACL breach compromised over 17,500 individual health and medical records, over 28,000 financial...Continue Reading

The servers of the Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) non-profit healthcare system have been compromised in a data breach incident, with about 3 million patient data exposed to hackers. According to the researchers, the incident was caused by a JavaScript tracker misuse called Meta Pixel, a tool that patients use to log in and enter their...Continue Reading

An Elasticsearch server owned by an Indian healthcare software provider has an ongoing leakage of Covid antigen test results online. The uncovered test results belonged to the Indians and foreign nationals who visited or from India since 2020. The researchers noted that users executed these tests through a rapid antigen kit. The Indian Council approved...Continue Reading

The Russia-based retail chain Digital Network System (DNS) admitted that it recently experienced a data breach incident that exposed the personal information of its employees and customers. DNS is one of Russia’s biggest computer and home appliance store chains that is the home of more than 30,000 workers. The store also has approximately 2,000 branches...Continue Reading