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Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2023
BORN Ontario data breach impacted 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients

The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN), the Ontario birth registry disclosed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people. The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) is a program and database used in the healthcare sector, particularly in maternal and child health, to collect, manage, and analyze health information for the purpose of improving […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 438 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2023
City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

The City of Dallas revealed that the Royal ransomware gang that hit the city system in May used a stolen account. In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas, Texas. To prevent the threat from spreading within the network, the City shut down the impacted IT systems. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2023
Information of Air Canada employees exposed in recent cyberattack

Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, announced that the personal information of some employees was exposed as a result of a recent cyberattack. Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some employees during a recent cyberattack. “An […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
Microsoft AI research division accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38TB of sensitive while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub. The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active consumer in the United States”. A threat actor who […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 437 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. TikTok fined €345M by Irish DPC for violating children’s privacy Iranian Peach Sandstorm group behind recent […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police disclosed a data breach

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023
Save the Children confirms it was hit by cyber attack

The international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children International was recently hit with a cyberattack. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The company disclosed the security incident after the ransomware gang BianLian listed the organization on its Tor leak site. The BianLian extortion group claims […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 436 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang […]