This week’s cybersecurity headlines saw their fair share of incidents, including alleged hacks against current presidential campaigns. Let’s dive in!
Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign claimed they had been hacked, resulting in internal documents being stolen and distributed externally. The campaign claims that hackers from Iran are responsible for the incident. On Monday, The FBI confirmed its investigation into this incident as well as attempts being made to hack the Biden-Harris campaign.
(–Source: The Week US on MSN
Read More: FBI probes cyber-attacks on Trump, Harris campaigns (msn.com) )
As previously mentioned in one of our This Week In Cybersecurity blogs, a background check company, National Public Data, experienced a data leak earlier this year affecting 3 billion people. The stolen information included Social Security Numbers and other important personal information, which was ten offered for sale on the dark web by hacker group USDoD for $3.5 million. A class action lawsuit is now being proposed against National Public Data due to this incident.
(–Source: The Verge on MSN
Read More: The weirdest ‘3 billion people’ data breach ever (msn.com) )
The city of Columbus, Ohio was recently hit by a data leak affecting its residents. The information includes names of victims of domestic violence and other crimes, as well as Social Security numbers of police officers and crime victims. City employees, residents, and other visitors who visited Columbus City Hall within the past 2 decades may be affected by this data leak on the dark web.
(–Source: WCMH Columbus on MSN
Read More: Confirmed: Columbus data leak affects residents, and what has been released (msn.com) )
Orion, a firm headquartered in Texas, recently feel victim to a scheme of “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties” causing the company to lose $60 million. As said by the FBI, scams like these which involve tricking employees at a company into initiating the transfer of company funds into a fraudster’s bank account, often involving the hacking of company email accounts to send fraudulent instructions to staff, are becoming a multibillion-dollar problem.
(–Source: TechCrunch
Read More: Confirmed: Columbus data leak affects residents, and what has been released (msn.com) )
