This Week in Cybersecurity
Each week at Applied Tech we recap the biggest cybersecurity news headlines from the week to keep you informed and ready to face the latest threats. Here’s your breakdown for the week of March 1st – March 6th.
Hackers Leak Odido Customer Data
After cybercrime group ShinyHunters recently stole data from Dutch telecom company Odido, the group has been posting portions of the stolen data online each day.
Last week, Odido chose not to pay ShinyHunters’ ransom demands, leading the cybercrime group to begin leaking the data online. To recap the scope of the breach, the stolen data is linked to at least 6.2 million current and former customer accounts and includes personal information ranging from names to bank account and ID document numbers.
Source: NL Times
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Madison Square Garden Data Breach
The cybercrime campaign targeting Oracle’s E-Business Suite has affected a plethora of companies, with more victims coming to light periodically. The newest confirmed victim is Madison Square Garden.
It’s currently unknown how many people are impacted, but it’s been confirmed that over 210GB of data from Madison Square Garden was compromised, including Social Security Numbers.
Source: SecurityWeek
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Clackamas Community College Class-Action
Clackamas Community College in Portland, OR is being faced with a class-action lawsuit related to a data breach that occurred in October of last year. There are 2 other lawsuits filed against the school, but they are likely to be consolidated into one.
While the incident happened in October, the school did not begin notifying affected individuals until January of this year. This late data breach notification is being cited in the lawsuit along with claims that the college stored students’ personal information in an unencrypted, internet-accessible environment, which left this sensitive information vulnerable and allowed the breach to happen.
Source: OregonLive.com on MSN
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UH Cancer Center Breach
In August of last year, a ransomware gang reportedly stole data from the University of Hawaii’s Epidemiology Division in its Cancer Center.
The data belongs to an estimated 1.2 million people, 87,000 of which were enrolled in the UH Cancer Center’s Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study between 1993 and 1996. The compromised information includes SSNs, 1998 voter registration data, driver’s license numbers, and more. No clinical operations or patient care were impacted by the incident.
Source: Bleeping Computer
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LexisNexis Cloud Breach
Over 3.9 million internal records have reportedly been exfiltrated from LexisNexis’ AWS infrastructure, impacting an estimated 400,000 users.
A threat actor posted the stolen dataset online, which includes plaintext login credentials, .gov email accounts, customer records, internal databases, and more. The data largely includes information linked to courts, law firms, and other legal agencies.
Source: Cybernews
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