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Ransomware gang did steal residents' confidential data, UK city council admits
2024-04-04 10:49

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Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers
2024-04-03 23:33

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INC Ransom claims to be behind 'cyber incident' at UK city council
2024-04-02 11:15

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China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city
2024-02-14 21:00

The Chinese government's Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US city's emergency services network and has been spotted snooping around America's telecommunications' providers as well. On the other hand, you may expect China by now to be all over US infrastructure just as much as Uncle Sam's NSA and CIA is probably all over Chinese networks.

Kansas City public transportation authority hit by ransomware
2024-01-27 15:08

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Tuesday, January 23. KCATA is a bi-state public transit agency serving seven counties of Missouri and Kansas, operating 78 bus routes and 6 MetroFlex routes using a fleet of 300 buses.

Majorca city Calvià extorted for $11M in ransomware attack
2024-01-16 18:45

The Calvià City Council in Majorca announced it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Saturday, which impacted municipal services. Calvià is a historic town on the Spanish island of Majorca with a population of 50,000 and is one of Majorca's major tourism hotspots, estimated to receive 1.6 million visits annually.

City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months
2023-10-23 09:25

The City of Philadelphia is investigating a data breach after attackers "May have gained access" to City email accounts containing personal and protected health information five months ago, in May. While officials discovered the incident on May 24 following suspicious activity in the City's email environment, the investigation found that the threat actors may have accessed emails in the compromised email accounts for at least two months after the City became aware of the incident. "However, to date, the investigation determined that between May 26, 2023 and July 28, 2023, an unauthorized actor may have gained access to certain City email accounts and certain information contained therein," the breach notice says.

Hackers steal data of 45,000 New York City students in MOVEit breach
2023-06-26 16:15

The New York City Department of Education says hackers stole documents containing the sensitive personal information of up to 45,000 students from its MOVEit Transfer server.The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Transfer attacks on June 5 in a statement shared with BleepingComputer, with the cybercrime gang saying it breached the MOVEit servers of "Hundreds of companies."

Capita wins £50M fraud reporting contract with City of London cops
2023-06-14 13:34

Capita, which is still dealing with a digital break-in that exposed customers' data to criminals, has scored a £50 million contract with the City of London police to run contact and engagement services for the force's fraud reporting service. The work will see Capita provide an "End-to-end customer management process" to potential victims of fraud when they contract the service.

New York City latest to sue Hyundai and Kia claiming their cars are too easy to steal
2023-06-08 14:32

Hyundai and Kia cars were stolen 977 times in New York City in the first four months of 2023, and authorities have had enough. "This represents a roughly 660 percent increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles as compared to those same months in 2022, when there were only 148 such thefts," blasts the complaint [PDF] filed with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York.