Timehop Hack Compromises 21 Million Users In a bit of good news/bad news, the social media time capsule site Timehop said that it was hacked around July 4th, but that they interrupted the hack in progress. Still the hackers got usernames, passwords, email addresses, date of birth, gender, some phone numbers and other information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just a few years ago most people had not even heard about ransomware. Today, if you have not been hit by a ransomware attack, you certainly have heard about attack after attack. Ranging from massive attacks that affected companies like Fedex and Merck pharmaceuticals to hospitals to little mom and pop stores, ransomware is the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware and hospitals. Not a great combination. The Register is reporting that Hancock Hospital paid ransom attackers $60,000 to get control of their system back. Hancock Health in Indiana was hit with a ransomware attack last week. As the hospital detected “something wrong”, they decided to shut down all hospital systems, all wellness center systems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British shipping company Clarksons was hacked and decided not to pay the ransom. So far, nothing new. No ransom, no data. Well, maybe, they had backups that they could restore – and thumb their nose at the hackers. I think this is becoming a bigger problem for hackers. As a result, hackers are changing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montgomery County, Alabama joined the ranks of probably millions of others and paid a ransom to get their data back after hackers threatened to erase their data if the ransom was not paid within 7 days. While details are sketchy, reports are that the attack began Monday around 5PM (at the end of the day) […]
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