More has emerged – slowly – about the Ticketmaster hack that compromised the personal details of over 560 million customers. Remember the first anyone heard of the hack was from the hackers – ShinyHunters – not from Ticketmaster – when they were attempting to sell the stolen data online. Ticketmaster …
Data for Sale
The auction house Christie’s has been hit by a ransomware attack, and their data is now being held to ransom. The RansomHub gang says they have seven days too pay – well probably less than that now. Auctioneer Christie’s confirms criminals stole clients’ data • The Register The incident also …
A lesson in Ransomware for grown ups
I will repeat my warning again this video contains some adult content and humour so do not watch it if you are easily offended. For the rest of us, this video by John Oliver on his Last Week Tonight show is a great explanation about ransomware – if you have …
I have the ransomware answer the British Library needed!
The British Library ransomware story continues… …now the hackers have released British Library customer information to the Dark Web. British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web – BBC News The Rhysida ransomware group threatened to release the stolen information unless a 20 Bitcoin ransom was paid, …
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What do hackers want?
Well in the case of the recent ransomware attack on the British Library they got HR data on the library’s staff. British Library says ransomware hackers stole data from HR files (therecord.media) The Rhysida ransomware gang will soon put that information up for auction on the Dark Web unless the …
