Breach

Purportedly exclusive data stolen from The Washington Times is being sold by Rhysida for more than $304,000 worth of Bitcoin as part of an online auction that will open in a week.

Included in the leaked data dump, which was 44 GB compressed and 500 GB uncompressed, were emails, mobile numbers, and QQ IDs in JSON format, which may have been processed in May 2023.

While only city employees were reported by officials to have been affected by the incident, Goodwolf noted that information exfiltrated and exposed by Rhysida included those of city hall visitors, sexual assault and domestic violence victims, and youths who were crime suspects or victims, as well as names belonging to police officers who have been subpoenaed.

Despite not specifying the malware leveraged to compromise its IT network, Schlatter revealed in a statement that it has been blackmailed by its attackers, who are believed to be demanding monetary payment in exchange for a decryption tool and the non-exposure of stolen data.

Such an intrusion against Evolution Mining, which has already been reported to the Australian Cyber Security Centre, comes months after Australian heavy rare earths mining firm Northern Minerals reported having its data exfiltrated and exposed following a BianLian ransomware attack.

Such a development follows the Trump campaign's disclosure of having its files compromised by an Iranian hacking operation disclosed by Microsoft, as well as former President Donald Trump's ex-adviser Roger Stone's confirmation of an email hack.

Data of more than 208,000 students potentially impacted in January breach.

Infiltration of CSC ServiceWorks' systems resulted in the exfiltration of individuals' names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, contact details, bank account numbers, and health insurance details.