A fairly major destructive cyber attack that took place over half a year ago is only just now becoming known to the public. ISP in the Midwest region of the United States was targeted and about 600,000 internet routers ended up being destroyed.
A Google insider has released a database leak documenting six years of privacy breaches that were largely unknown to the general public. While each of the items in the database leak is small, there are thousands in total, spanning six years of company history.
If the Hudson Rock post turns out to be fully accurate, the origin of the Ticketmaster data breach (and all other incidents involving Snowflake customers) may have taken place all the way back in October 2023.
Some of the biggest names in the botnet game, including 911 S5 and TrickBot, have been seriously impacted. In some cases, arrests of central figures were made during the Europol law enforcement investigation.
As if Ticketmaster had not earned enough negative sentiment already, the company now appears to be dealing with a massive data breach impacting about 560 million Ticketmaster customers.
Kakao, parent company of popular messaging app KakaoTalk, is the recipient of a record-setting privacy fine of about $11.1 million only weeks after the previous record was established, as data leaks become more expensive for companies operating in South Korea.
ICE recently took a $10 million fine over its delays in reporting an April 2021 incident, in which a third party vendor was compromised. The company was found to have failed to provide the NYSE and other subsidiaries with timely notice.
Cyber attacks on DeFi protocols resulted in a $20 million theft at Sonne Finance totaling, and ALEX Lab had about $4.3 million stolen and investment firm BlockTower Capital lost about $1.5 million to hackers.
The UK now ranks the Chinese cyber threat as its top defense priority, and the US has joined it in issuing another dire warning about the risks to international stability and the critical infrastructure of rival nations.
Hackers were able to steal about 49 million customer records from Dell by merely registering as a company partner, which granted access to private order information.