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Ransomware attack hits DDS Safe backup service used by hundreds of dental offices

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PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), that operates the online data backup service called DDS Safe. DDS Safe, is a HIPAA Compliant 3 layered online dental backup system that provides dental offices triple the protection of traditional online back-up solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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France Télévisions group hit by a cyber attack, its antennas were not impacted

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The group confirmed that the broadcasting of France 3 will be transferred to the headquarters of France Televisions, the company also activated the backup site in response to the incident. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, France Télévisions).

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University of Utah pays a $457,000 ransom to ransomware gang

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The University was able to recover the operations from the backups, but decided to pay the ransom to avoid having ransomware operators leak student information online. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Frost & Sullivan databases available for sale on a hacker forum

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firm Frost & Sullivan suffered a data breach, data from an unsecured backup that were exposed on the Internet was sold by a threat actor on a hacker forum. “The breach occurred to a misconfigured backup directory on one of Frost and Sullivan public-facing servers. ” reported BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The team behind the Joomla CMS discloses a data breach

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Last week a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left an unencrypted full backup of the JRD site ( resources.joomla.org ) on an unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket operated by the company. “JRD full site backups (unencrypted) were stored in a third-party company Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.

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City of Lafayette (Colorado) paid $45,000 ransom after ransowmare attack

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The City of Lafayette, Colorado, USA, has been forced to pay $45,000 because they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. “Financial data appears to be recoverable from unaffected backups. Personal credit card information was not compromised, as the City uses external PCI-certified payment gateways.”

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Attunity data leak: Netflix, Ford, TD Bank data exposed by Open AWS Buckets

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The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” Researchers also found credentials for Attunity systems and its official Twitter account, and an employee personal information (names, salary, date of birth, and employee ID numbers).

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