Alex Dovbnya reports: The individual claiming responsibility for the hack on KyberSwap, a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, has issued a set of astonishing demands through a transaction on the Ethereum blockchain. The hacker, self-identified as “Kyber Director,” is demanding complete executive control over Kyber, the company, and full authority over its governance mechanism, KyberDAO….
Hendersonville city employees target of cybersecurity breach
Mitchell Black reports: A Hendersonville cybersecurity incident has put city employees’ data at risk. The incident occurred just before the Thanksgiving break, according to a Nov. 29 statement from City Manager John Connet. Connet said that a “threat actor group” targeted software used to manage city employee data. Hendersonville is working with the North Carolina…
Ukrainian gets 8-year sentence for running marketplace for Americans’ data
Daryna Antoniuk reports: A Ukrainian citizen was sentenced to eight years in U.S. prison for administering a marketplace that sold the personal information of millions of Americans. Vitalii Chychasov, 37, was arrested in March of last year while attempting to enter Hungary and was later extradited to the U.S. Chychasov previously agreed to forfeit $5 million in…
Some city data was stolen during cyber breach; full scope remains unknown, Long Beach says
Jason Ruiz reports: Long Beach officials said Wednesday that some city data was stolen during a cybersecurity breach it detected earlier this month, but, officials said, it could be weeks or months before a clear picture emerges of what exactly was taken. The city said it does not currently know what type of data was taken…
More than 1 million Michiganders affected by Welltok cyberattack
Kristen Jordan Shamus reports: More than 1 million Michiganders were affected by a cybersecurity breach at Welltok Inc., a software company contracted to provide communication services for Corewell Health’s southeastern Michigan properties along with a healthy lifestyle portal for Priority Health, an insurance plan owned by Corewell. For about 2,500 Priority Health members, names, addresses and…
Line operator says 440,000 personal records leaked in data breach
Kyodo News reported: Tech giant LY Corp. reported a massive data breach on Monday, saying as many as 440,000 items of personal data, including more than 300,000 linked to Line messaging app users, were leaked due to unauthorized access to an affiliate’s computer system in October. The leaked data did not contain information regarding bank…