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Hackers leak 500GB trove of data stolen during LAUSD ransomware attack

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Hackers have released a cache of data stolen during a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in what appears to be the biggest education breach in recent years.

Vice Society, a Russian-speaking group that last month claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack that disrupted the LAUSD’s access to email, computer systems and applications, published over the weekend the data stolen from the school district. The group had previously set an October 4 deadline to pay an unspecified ransom demand.

The stolen data was posted to Vice Society’s dark web leak site and appears to contain personal identifying information, including passport details, Social Security numbers and tax forms. While TechCrunch has not yet reviewed the full trove, the published data also contains confidential information including contract and legal documents, financial reports containing bank account details, health information including COVID-19 test data, previous conviction reports and psychological assessments of students.

Vice Society, a group known for targeting schools and the education sector, included a message with the published data that said the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the government agency assisting the school in responding to the breach, “wasted our time.”

In an email, Vice Society told TechCrunch that CISA allegedly stalled the release of data and that CISA was “wrong” to advise LAUSD not to pay the ransom demand. (CISA and the FBI have long discouraged victims from paying the ransom as to not “embolden adversaries to target additional organizations.”) “We always delete documents and help to restore network [sic], we don’t talk about companies that paid us,” the cybercriminals said. “Now LAUSD has lost 500GB of files.”

CISA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

LAUSD superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho confirmed the release of stolen data in a statement posted to Twitter on Sunday, along with announcing a new hotline starting Monday morning — (855) 926-1129 — for concerned parents and students to ask questions about the cyberattack.

Just hours before the public release of the stolen data, LAUSD posted…

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Hackers Release Data Trove From Belarus in Bid to Overthrow Lukashenko Regime

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(Bloomberg) — Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part of a broad effort to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.

The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, as the hackers call themselves, have in recent weeks released portions of a huge data trove they say includes some of the country’s most secret police and government databases. The information contains lists of alleged police informants, personal information about top government officials and spies, video footage gathered from police drones and detention centers and secret recordings of phone calls from a government wiretapping system, according to interviews with the hackers and documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Among the pilfered documents are personal details about Lukashenko’s inner circle and intelligence officers. In addition, there are mortality statistics indicating that thousands more people in Belarus died from Covid-19 than the government has publicly acknowledged, the documents suggest.

In an interview and on social media, the hackers said they also sabotaged more than 240 surveillance cameras in Belarus and are preparing to shut down government computers with malicious software named X-App.

Belarus’s interior ministry didn’t respond to requests for comment. On July 30, the head of the country’s KGB security agency, Ivan Tertel, said in a speech aired on state television that there had been “hacker attacks on personal data” and a “systematic collection of information,” which he blamed on the work of “foreign special services,” according to local news website Zerkalo.io.

While the immediate impact of the hack isn’t entirely clear, experts said the long-term consequences could be significant, from undermining government proclamations to bolstering international efforts to sanction or prosecute Lukashenko and his subordinates. “If ever Lukashenko ends up facing prosecution in the International Criminal Court, for example, these records are going to be incredibly important,” said Tanya Lokot, an associate professor at Dublin City University who specializes in…

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CIA acknowledges its trove of cyber warfare tools was exposed by WikiLeaks in 2017 – World Socialist Web Site

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CIA acknowledges its trove of cyber warfare tools was exposed by WikiLeaks in 2017  World Socialist Web Site
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U. S. charges Chinese hackers in alleged theft of vast trove of confidential data in 12 countries – The Washington Post

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  1. U. S. charges Chinese hackers in alleged theft of vast trove of confidential data in 12 countries  The Washington Post
  2. China denies ‘slanderous’ economic espionage charges from US, allies  CNBC
  3. DOJ charges Chinese nationals in cyber espionage campaign | TheHill  The Hill
  4. U.S., allies slam China for economic espionage, spies indicted  Reuters
  5. U.S. Claim of Broad Spying Campaign Prompts Chinese Rebuke  Bloomberg
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