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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2023
> Australia's biggest skin cancer study has been hit by an unpublicised data breach, with the personal details of more than 1,000 people feared to have been accessed by hackers.
> Maybe one day, a law or regulation will require entities to purge old data that is no longer needed or requires it to be disconnected from the internet. If anyone needs a fresh example of why we need that type of law or regulation, here it is:
> Richard T. Miller, DMD, PC, d/b/a Great Neck/Mid Island Dental (“Great Neck Dental”) acquired the assets of another dental practice back in 2015. The law firm of Cooperman Lester Miller Carus LLP (“CLMC”) was hired to assist with the transaction and was provided with certain patient information.
> The listing then provides the login credentials to what is allegedly Donut Leaks’ admin cpanel.
> When tested on _D#NUT:ch, however, the login credentials did not work. Perhaps D#NUT Leaks spotted the post and changed their login.
> Bloomberg Law broke the news Friday that Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” was arrested Wednesday, and a search warrant was executed at his family’s home in Peekskill. The affidavit of FBI Special Agent John Longmire claims that Fitzpatrick admitted to being “Pompompurin” and the owner and administrator of BreachForums. He allegedly made those admissions voluntarily after being advised of his Miranda rights.
> The week before saw a handful of traditional banks take a massive hit in the United States. This time, crypto seems to have been hit with its own fair share of pushbacks, as a leading global cryptocurrency ATM manufacturer recently got exploited by hackers.
> General Bytes, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATM) manufacturers, experienced a security breach on the 17th and 18th of March.
> Hitachi Energy joined the ranks of victims hit by the Clop ransomware group, which has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra's widely used managed file transfer software, GoAnywhere MFT. Clop claimed responsibility for the hack, which compromised networks used by 130 different organizations.
> India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CHOT-IN) has been asked to investigate the alleged hacking of the Health Department’s website by a Russian group The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CHOT-IN) has been asked to investigate the alleged hacking of the Health Department’s website by a Russian team. . CloudSEK, a cyber security company, said that the Russian hacking group ‘Phoenix’ has hacked into the website of the Central Health Department and stolen the information of hospitals and doctors working in them. It is said that this infiltration attempt has been made after the information that the G20 federation is likely to impose economic sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine. In this case, an official of the Union Health Department said, “In relation to the alleged intrusion of the website, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Committee, which is operating under the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been consulted. The committee will investigate the matter and submit a report soon,” he said. The ‘Phoenix’ penetration team has been operational since January last year. Before this, the company has carried out infiltration operations on the websites of hospitals in countries such as Japan, Britain, and the United States.
> The school is working with the FBI, a cyber insurance response team, and the Michigan Cyber Command Center to solve the problem.
> LCC posted on social media Thursday that classes will not be in session Friday, but in-person classes will resume as normal on Saturday. LCC has not released the source of the cyberthreat, which started Wednesday afternoon.
> Students and faculty are still confused and concerned about what is happening on campus. Students were completely cut off from college websites following the threat. Student Jordan Clarkson said that it’s affecting his studies.
> Hospitals are increasingly finding themselves the target of cyber-attacks, affecting service and causing unease over sensitive data being stolen among both hospitals and patients. There are several pathways hackers use to access hospital computer systems.
> Last week, the Saint-Pierre Hospital in Brussels was the victim of a cyber-attack. With computer operations blocked and servers slow, the attack caused a widespread outage throughout the hospital which led to major delays in operations and an emergency room being shut down for a few hours.
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