Can you believe it’s already almost May? Time flies when there are so many cybersecurity incidents to keep up with! Here’s what you might have missed this week:
After a leaker exposed “confidential materials not released to the public” relating to upcoming Pokémon releases last year, Nintendo is tracking down the person responsible. The leaked information included source codes, early character designs, and other information relating to the Pokémon franchise’s works-in-progress.
Since the leaker uploaded the information to a Discord server called “FreakLeak,” Nintendo has reached out to Discord to try to obtain the person’s information. If Discord complies, the leaker may be faced with a lawsuit.
(–Source: Engadget on MSN
Read More: Nintendo is going after the person behind last year’s massive Pokémon leak )
The city of Abilene, Texas was hit by what is being referred to as a “cyber incident” last week and the city’s IT department is working with other cybersecurity experts to investigate.
The city learned of the incident after receiving reports of unresponsive services within its internal network. As soon as the city was made aware, they began carrying out their incident response plan to mitigate the attack. The investigation is ongoing and systems are being monitored closely.
(–Source: Abilene Reporter News
Read More: City of Abilene systems functioning in spite of ‘cyber incident’ )
In September of 2023, accounting firm, Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker LLC, experienced a data breach that affected more than 1 million customers, which was then investigated until April of last year.
After receiving a data breach notice almost 7 months after the discovery of the incident, a customer affected by this incident has brought forth a class action lawsuit against the firm, alleging that Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker LLC did not have the proper protections in place to keep customer data safe.
(–Source: Top Class Actions
Read More: Accounting firm hit with class action over data breach affecting 1M+ )
IT systems within the Baltimore City Schools’ network experienced a cybersecurity incident in February that impacted more than 310,000 Maryland residents, 1,000 of them being students.
Compromised files contained personal information that may have included government issued ID and Social Security numbers. The school district is offering credit monitoring services to affected individuals.
(–Source: Baltimore Sun on MSN
Read More: About 31,000 impacted by Baltimore City Public Schools cyberattack )
Blue Shield of California notified its customers that a misconfiguration of the healthcare giant’s use of Google Analytics to track website use allowed for personal and health information of millions of people to be collected, which may have allowed Google to “conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members.”
Blue Shield has notified 4.7 million customers of this breach, which likely affects a majority of the insurance company’s customers. It’s unclear if the data has been deleted by Google or if Blue Shield has asked the tech company to do so.
(– Source: TechCrunch
Read More: Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years | TechCrunch )
The city of Portland, Oregon was defrauded out of $6.7 million dollars by an attacker pretending to be a vendor for the city after the fraudster sent a message to the city’s new vendor management system requesting for the vendor’s bank account information to be changed.
The hacker persisted and deceived an employee into sending the needed link to update the banking information. A little over a month after this change, the city initiated a payment to the vendor, but the money was deposited into the hacker’s bank account.
Thankfully, due to attention from the FBI, the banks were alerted of the transaction and were able to stop the payment. An investigation has now been launched into this incident.
(–Source: OregonLive.com on MSN
Read More: Fraudster tries to steal $6.7 million from city of Portland, in phishing scheme targeting huge construction project )
