Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 23, 2020

European Officials Say Suspected Hackers Worked for Russia's GRU Military Intelligence Unit The European Union has issued sanctions against two Russian nationals alleged to have hacked Germany's lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, in 2015. EU officials say both men work for the Russian military intelligence unit GRU.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Thanks to the massive Anthem hack, for nearly a decade 2015 has been the record year for U.S. What Will 2024 Be Like If the Healthcare Sector Doesn't Step Up? health data breaches - with 112.5 million people affected. But 2023 shattered that record, big-time. Will 2024 be another banner year for health data compromises?

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MAY 31, 2019

Infections Started in 2015 and Ran Through April Checkers Drive-In Restaurants says 102 of its 900 U.S. locations were hit with point-of-sale malware, with one California restaurant infected over a more than two-year period starting in December 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Pino - a former Department of Homeland Security official charged with mitigating the massive 2015 cyberattack on Office of Personnel Management - as the new director of its HIPAA enforcement agency. Pino Served at DHS During OPM's Mega-Breach Mitigation The Department of Health and Human Services has named Lisa J.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

APT42 Operates on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps An Iranian state-sponsored group in operation since 2015 relies on highly targeted social engineering to try and attack individuals and organizations that Tehran deems enemies of the regime, says a new report from cyberthreat intelligence firm Mandiant.

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JUNE 9, 2020

in 2015 for criminal hacking on behalf of private investigators. Researchers at Citizen Lab Accuse Indian Firm of Criminal Hacking for Hire Surveillance researchers at Citizen Lab have tied thousands of "Dark Basin" corporate espionage phishing attacks to a small Indian cybersecurity firm called BellTroX InfoTech Services.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2020

An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico’s top tourist destinations disrupted their highly profitable business, which raked in an estimated $1.2 See the video and everything.

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JUNE 18, 2020

. “You can expect good things come tax time as I will have lots of profiles with verified prior year AGIs to make your refund filing 10x easier,” TheDearthStar advertised in an August 2015 message to AlphaBay members. ’ Could be $1,000 could be $100,000.” Treasury billions of dollars.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. Dominitz said he never imagined back in 2015 when he founded Q6Cyber that we would still be seeing so many merchants dealing with magstripe-based data breaches.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The scandal is the latest fallout stemming from a three-part investigation into the organized crime group by KrebsOnSecurity in 2015. According to prosecution documents, Marcu and The Shark spotted my reporting shortly after it was published in 2015, and discussed what to do next on a messaging app: The Shark: Krebsonsecurity.com See this.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Regulators Say Health Insurer Failed to Take Basic Security Steps Federal regulators have smacked health insurer Anthem with a record $16 million HIPAA settlement in the wake of a cyberattack revealed in 2015, which impacted nearly 79 million individuals. What missteps does the settlement highlight?

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Consider a "60 Minutes" report from 2015 - and where we're at today. SolarWinds' Hack Prompts an Assessment of the Work That Still Needs to Be Done In light of the widespread apparent impact of the hack of SolarWinds' network management tools, it's time for a frank assessment of the lack of cybersecurity progress in recent years.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

court has sentenced Daniel Kaye, 30, after he admitted launching DDoS attacks against Liberia's largest telecommunications company in 2015 and 2016. Daniel Kaye Was Paid to Disrupt Liberia's Largest Telecommunications Firm A U.K. A rival internet services provider paid Kaye $100,000 to launch the attacks.

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MAY 27, 2020

Faces 13 Charges, Including Computer Hacking The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015. It's the fourth arrest of those tied to the group.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

After Insurance, Fast-Food Chain's Breach Costs Are Nearly $34 Million Fast-food giant Wendy's has reached a $50 million settlement agreement with financial institutions that sued after attackers planted RAM-scraping malware on point-of-sale systems in 1,025 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016, stealing massive quantities of payment card data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

More greatest hits from Experian: 2022: Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers 2015: Experian Breach Tied to NY-NJ ID Theft Ring 2015: At Experian, Security Attrition Amid Acquisitions 2015: Experian Hit With Class Action (..)

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. 12, 2023 scoop from The Wrap. There are several other studios pursuing documentaries on the Ashley Madison breach, and it’s not hard to see why.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

financial services firms and others from 2012 to mid-2015. Andrei Tyurin Stole Details of 83 Million Customers During Cybercrime Campaign Russian national Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to perpetrating massive hack attacks against leading U.S. Victims included JPMorgan Chase, from which he stole details of 83 million customer accounts.

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JULY 10, 2024

Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform 'Willfully Flouted US Anti-Money Laundering Laws' The once-leading cryptocurrency exchange platform known as BitMEX pleaded guilty Wednesday to willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws to effectively serve as a money laundering vehicle from 2015 to 2020, according to the U.S.

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JULY 29, 2020

McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. In 2015, the major credit card associations instituted new rules that made it riskier and potentially more expensive for U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

million settlement in the wake of a 2015 data breach that affected more than 9.3 Security Shortcomings Found in Wake of Major Data Breach The Department of Health and Human Services has slapped Excellus Health Plan with a $5.1 million individuals.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

But the 2018 victim total was far less than in 2016 and 2015, when the healthcare sector was hit with a string of huge cyberattacks.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

citizen who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. that was part of John Davies’ 2015 fraud conviction. After eluding justice in the U.K., John Clifton Davies, a.k.a.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

In Wake of Massive Data Breach, Attorneys General Allege Violations of HIPAA, State Laws In a groundbreaking effort, the attorneys general of a dozen states have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against a cloud-based electronic health records vendor that reported a 2015 data breach affecting 3.9 million individuals.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Telecom Company Says Total Losses Due to Data Breach Stand at $99 Million Two men who pleaded guilty to participating in the massive 2015 hack of London-based telecom company TalkTalk have been sentenced to serve time in jail.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2020

“ Rechinu ” or “The Shark,” and his ATM company Intacash , were the subject of a three part investigation by KrebsOnSecurity published in September 2015. Tudor, a.k.a.

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JULY 2, 2021

Countless Western Digital customers saw their MyBook Live network storage drives remotely wiped in the past month thanks to a bug in a product line the company stopped supporting in 2015, as well as a previously unknown zero-day flaw.

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MAY 29, 2019

Settlement Follows Federal HIPAA Penalty Tied to Data Breach Cloud-based electronic health records vendor Medical Informatics Engineering has signed a $900,000 settlement with 16 state attorneys general in a case involving the same 2015 data breach that was at the center of a recent $100,000 settlement with a federal regulator.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers. 2015: Experian Breach Tied to NY-NJ ID Theft Ring. 2015: At Experian, Security Attrition Amid Acquisitions. 2015: Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service. More greatest hits from Experian: 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. In 2015, Mr. Davies was convicted of stealing more than GBP 750,000 from struggling companies looking to restructure their debt.

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MAY 6, 2020

Election Interference German prosecutors believe that an alleged Russian hacker who apparently is a member of an elite military unit is responsible for the 2015 cyberattack against Germany's parliament, according to a news report. Alleged GRU Agent Charged Earlier in Connection With U.S. 2016 election interference.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. ” The IT network of The Manipulaters, circa 2013. Image: Facebook.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Sextortion Scammers Tap Five-Year-Old Leak From Infidelity-Focused Dating Site Scammers are blackmailing users of infidelity-focused dating site Ashley Madison using leaked data from 2015, warns security firm Vade Secure.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Defendants Allegedly Oversaw Schemes for Years, Causing Millions in Losses Several Nigerian nationals have been indicted for their alleged involvement in business email compromise campaigns from 2015 to 2017 that targeted U.S. businesses.

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MAY 23, 2019

Investigation Came in Wake of Cyberattack That Affected Millions Federal regulators have smacked a cloud-based electronics health records vendor with a $100,000 HIPAA settlement in the wake of a 2015 cyberattack that affected millions of individuals. What's the focus of the enforcement action?

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JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC. That record, from April 2015, lists Chu Da’s email address as yehuo@blazefire.com. More searching points to a Yehuo user on gamerbbs[.]cn 2333youxi[.]com

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APRIL 22, 2019

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool (RAT) implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT , a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million computers with malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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