AP reports: A Fort Wayne medical software company is notifying patients of health care providers it serves that their private information might have been exposed when its networks were hacked, it said Wednesday. Medical Informatics Engineering said the attack on its main network and its NoMoreClipboard network began May 7 and wasn’t detected until May…
Month: June 2015
Japanese oil association hit by cyber-attack
Japan’s Petroleum Association was hit by a targeted cyber-attack earlier this month, which saw numerous PCs become infected with an unknown virus. Read more on SCMagazine.
Russian hackers blamed for TV5 cyber attack
Catherine Hardy reports: Police in France say they now think the cyber attack on TV5 Monde in April was the work of a group of Russian hackers known as APT28, and not the group calling itself Islamic State, as originally suggested. Jihadist propaganda was posted on TV5’s website during the infiltration in April. Details of…
Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…
NY: Data breach occurs at Holiday Valley resort
The management at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville said a data breach occurred between Oct. 17, 2014 and June 2, and affected credit and debit card purchases of food, recreation, retail and lodging. Read more on BradfordEra.com. A statement on Holiday Valley’s web site reads: Dear Holiday Valley Customer: I’m sorry to report that Holiday Valley…
Ca: House of Commons says data theft warning a ‘miscommunication’
Chloe Fedio reports: A strongly-worded warning Friday that cyberattacks on House of Commons employees had resulted “in the theft of large volumes of personal data” was a miscommunication, a spokeswoman from the Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told CBC News. Read more on CBC.