Officials for Star Hub, a Singaporean Telco, have recently revealed that the company suffered a data breach in July that resulted in the leak of personal data belonging to over 57,000 customers. It is believed that the leaked data reaches back to 2007, and contains mostly contact information for customers including email addresses and phone numbers, which could be bought and used for further phishing campaigns. Star Hub has also begun contacting affected customers, though they haven’t publicly revealed which portion of their customers was targeted.
Georgia Health System suffers ransomware attack
In mid-July, a ransomware attack was identified by the IT department of the Georgia Health System, who were then forced to take several of their systems offline to protect their data integrity. Unfortunately, this specific attack came after nearly six months of unauthorized access to highly sensitive patient data, which doesn’t appear to have been transferred outside of the network. At this time, officials are offering credit and identity monitoring to all affected clients for up to a year.
FlyTrap is the latest Facebook hijacker
Over 10,000 Android users have become victims of a new Facebook account hijacker that steals session cookies to display enticing ads that encourage users to enter their Facebook login credentials. While the malware itself uses the legitimate Facebook authenticator and can’t directly steal the credentials, it does have a secondary JavaScript injector to steal other data that the user may enter or have stored on the device. Amazingly, this malware has been spotted on devices in almost 144 countries across the globe, with the small number of total downloads.
Joplin, Missouri reveals ransomware attack
Officials working for the City of Joplin, Missouri have issued a statement regarding a ransomware attack that disrupted a significant number of computer and phone systems back in July. In the time since the attack, all systems have been restoring to normal operation, though this may be in part due to an insurance payment of $320,000, made out to an unknown recipient. It is also believed that the payment was made in order to stop the leaking of any stolen data, though any data theft hasn’t yet been confirmed.
Massive credit card dump found on dark marketplace
A credit card dump containing nearly one million unique card credentials for sale on All World Cards, an illicit online marketplace for stolen payment cards. The researchers who first identified this large card dump have also confirmed that the site has only been in operation since June, and may have increased in size to housing over 2.5 million unique cards and other necessary processing data.