Google has disclosed averting an HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack with a peak of 46 million requests per second in June, which is nearly 76% bigger than the record-breaking DDoS attack blocked by Cloudflare within the same month, according to The Register.
Major Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin trading platform CS.MONEY has been impacted by a cyberattack, resulting in the theft of $6 million worth of items and temporary site disruption, according to BleepingComputer.
TechCrunch reports that approximately 1,900 users of end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal had their phone numbers and SMS verification codes compromised as a result of last week's Twilio data breach.
A $4 million settlement has been reached in the patient-led lawsuit against Florida Orthopaedic, which will resolve claims that a 2020 data theft incident was caused by its failure to comply with industry security standards.
Following reports accusing Facebook of scraping health data with its Pixel tracking tool, Novant Health is informing 1.3 million patients of an “unintended” disclosure caused by a misconfigured pixel.
This week’s breach roundup is led by a data theft incident just now being reported by Behavioral Health Group. But media reports first reported the ransomware extortion incident more than eight months ago.
Notable decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Curve Finance was compromised earlier this week, as threat actors were able to effectively “clone” curve.fi and send user traffic to its fake crypto-exchange site.
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