The BlackSuit ransomware operation has been disrupted by coordinated international law enforcement. A splash screen appeared on their leak site this week: THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED This site has been seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation. OPERATION CHECKMATE Numerous agencies were involved in Operation Checkmate,…
When the owner of the original BreachForums, Conor Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” was sentenced in January of 2024 to time served plus 20 years supervised release with special conditions, it was a shock. Although young, Fitzpatrick had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device, access device fraud, and possession of child pornography. Based on federal…
Threat hunters are calling attention to a new campaign that has targeted Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed on the public internet. “The campaign involved unauthorized administrative logins on management interfaces of firewalls, creation of new accounts, SSL VPN authentication through those accounts, and various other configuration changes,” cybersecurity firm
Published by DataBreaches.net in collaboration with North Country Communications, LLC. January 6, 2026 On December 15, North Country Communications launched as a consultancy dedicated to helping small and mid-sized HIPAA-regulated entities comply with HIPAA’s privacy, security, and breach notification requirements. DataBreaches took the opportunity to interview its founder, Rachel Klugman Seeger, about the services she provides……
Lucas Ropek reports: A former Disney employee who was fired for misconduct has admitted to hacking into the company’s menu creation software to alter key details, including food allergy information that could have been dangerous to customers at the resort’s restaurants. A complaint brought by the Justice Department last year claimed that a man named…
There’s a follow-up to the Helsinki incident affecting hundreds of thousands of children and adults in 2024. The government has finished its investigation and published its findings and recommendations. From their press release: The City of Helsinki’s Education Division (KASKO) was targeted by a serious data breach in spring 2024. As a consequence of the…
When we talk about identity in cybersecurity, most people think of usernames, passwords, and the occasional MFA prompt. But lurking beneath the surface is a growing threat that does not involve human credentials at all, as we witness the exponential growth of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). At the top of mind when NHIs are mentioned, most…
