data breach
Nintendo confirms data stolen in WebMD subsidiary cyberattack
Nintendo of America has confirmed to GeekFeed that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. The company’s statement comes after claims from the Shadowbyt3$ “extortion-as-a-service” threat group that they exfiltrated sensitive data related to Nintendo of America employees. “We are aware of an issue […]
Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang
Kodak has confirmed that it’s working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company’s data. Founded in 1880 as the Eastman Kodak Company and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Kodak has 79,000 worldwide patents and provides commercial print, advanced materials, and chemical products. A company […]
iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients’ personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2 billion hours of curated heartbeat data from over 12 million patients. In a filing with the U.S. Securities […]
Council of Europe investigates ShinyHunters data breach claims
The Council of Europe, the continent’s oldest intergovernmental body, is probing claims of a data breach made by the ShinyHunters extortion group over the weekend. As Europe’s leading human rights organization, the Council represents 46 European member states and a population of over 700 million people, promoting democracy and the rule of law across Europe […]
Infinite Campus data breach affects 137,000 school staff accounts
The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from more than 137,000 school staff accounts in a Salesforce data theft attack that targeted the widely used Infinite Campus K-12 student information system in March. Infinite Campus is an education technology (EdTech) company that provides a student information system (SIS) to over 3,200 school districts across the […]
Ex-school district employee jailed for hacks on former employer
A former IT employee at an Iowa school district was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conducting a prolonged cyberattack against the former employer that disrupted classroom operations, deleted accounts, and caused tens of thousands of dollars in damages. According to court documents, Ezekiel Dean Potter, 34, previously worked as a senior IT support specialist […]
Maine disables data breach notification portal after fake disclosures
Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state’s website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future. Yesterday, GeekFeed reported that fake data breach disclosures had been submitted to Maine’s official breach notification portal impersonating Discord and the multiplayer social virtual reality platform […]
Pharma giant Novo Nordisk discloses breach of clinical trials data
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulin, disclosed a data breach affecting patient information from some clinical trials. Founded in 1923, Novo Nordisk now employs around 67,900 people across 80 offices worldwide and is the maker of viral GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The company revealed on Thursday that attackers gained access […]
Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach
The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. DINUM, the French government’s digital affairs directorate, disclosed on Monday that a threat actor gained access to the Tchap platform using a compromised user account and notified France’s data protection authority (CNIL) due to the […]
Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has disclosed a physical security incident that affects private data of more than 10 million customers. In an official announcement, the company explains that the IT staff regularly performs backups to manage server storage. Due to capacity constraints, on April 27 an external storage device was used for the task. The drive […]