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FBI Searched Jan. 6 Rioters and George Floyd Demonstrators in Spy Database

By Kim S. Nash

 

Welcome back. Despite a lack of evidence, the FBI performed more than a dozen searches of raw foreign intelligence data related to people believed to be involved in the Capitol riot to hunt for foreign ties, according to a heavily redacted opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. 

FBI analysts also searched for information related to 133 people arrested in the aftermath of the protests prompted by the killing of Floyd, a Black man who died pleading for his life while a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. Due to redactions in the opinion, it wasn’t clear whether the searches related to individuals protesting racism and police brutality, or to counterprotesters.

Other searches included donors to an unnamed congressional campaign, defense contractors, holders of security clearances, and people who appeared in police homicide reports, “including victims, next-of-kin, witnesses and suspects.” Read the WSJ story.

More news:

  • China bans U.S. chip maker Micron
  • Dole spends $10.5M in ransomware recovery
  • A $700,000 hacker fraud at Florida Baptist Convention
  • Breach at Amazon's Pillpack pharmacy
 

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Cyber Incidents

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Sukuzi suspends production at motorcycle factory. A cyber incident at Suzuki Motorcycle India on May 10 led the company to suspend operations at its factory there. The company is investigating and has reported the matter to government authorities, a representative said, declining to provide details. (Economic Times Auto)

“There were some long nights, some long hours, some hard times, some difficult tasks, some tough decisions we had to make.”

— Joey Peay, chief executive of Murfreesboro Medical Clinic, about responding to a cyberattack at the Tennessee healthcare provider. The clinic shut down services for weeks while it dealt with the incident.
 

Aftermath

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$10.5 million: Agriculture company Dole disclosed it has spent $10.5 million to clean up a February ransomware attack that disrupted its vegetable unit and facilities in Chile. Chief Executive Rory Byrne earlier said the company didn't have cyber insurance because the cost of such policies "is prohibitive."

$700,000

Funds stolen from the Florida Baptist Convention by hackers in a business email compromise, the state network of churches said. 

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Privacy & Surveillance

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Amazon's Pillpack customers' prescription data were exposed in apparent credential-stuffing attack. Hackers in April used compromised email credentials to get into the accounts of 19,032 customers of the online pharmacy and 3,614 accounts showed prescription information. (Fierce Healthcare)

Meta fined over data transfers to U.S. Facebook owner Meta Platforms was fined $1.3 billion by European Union regulators for sending user information to the U.S., a record privacy penalty for the bloc.

 

National Security

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The Cyberspace Administration of China said Sunday its review of Micron products found “significant security risks” that would affect national security and warned operators of key Chinese information infrastructure—such as telecommunications firms and state-owned banks—against purchasing the company’s goods. Read the full WSJ story.

 
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About Us

The WSJ Pro Cybersecurity team is Deputy Editor Kim S. Nash (on Twitter @knash99), reporter James Rundle and reporter Catherine Stupp (@catstupp). Follow us on Twitter @WSJCyber. Reach the team by replying to any newsletter you receive or by emailing Kim at kim.nash@wsj.com.

 
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