And then there were more. Like Walmart Canada and CVS before it, Costco also suspended its photo center in the wake of a breach of third-party vendor PNI Digital Media: PNI removed a list of its clients after Brian Krebs reported on the list, but Brian notes that other clients are also posting notices: Tescophoto.com posted that it…
Month: July 2015
Personal info of 700K is public record
Natasha Lindstrom reports: They didn’t mean to do it. Not the scholarship funds, alumni associations or garden clubs. Not the nonprofit hospitals, union groups or corporate foundation arms. Yet more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations unwittingly leaked hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to unsuspecting board members, donors, employees and college students. […] More…
Former U.S. Marine Charged with Stealing Identities of Fellow Service Personnel in Scheme to Defraud Navy Federal Credit Union of More Than $138,000
CHICAGO—A former United States Marine from Calumet City stole the identities of several fellow Marines and used their information to illegally procure more than $138,000 from Navy Federal Credit Union, according to an indictment returned this week in federal court in Chicago. While serving in Combat Logistics Regiment 3 at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan,…
UCLA Health discloses network breach potentially affecting 4.5 million patients
UCLA Health announced today it was a victim of a criminal cyber attack. While the attackers accessed parts of the computer network that contain personal and medical information, UCLA Health has no evidence at this time that the cyber attacker actually accessed or acquired any individual’s personal or medical information. UCLA Health estimates that data…
UniCredit.ua and RBC.ua compromised with RIG exploit kit
Nick Bilogorskiy writes: Cyphort Labs discovered a malware infection at the Ukrainian website of UniCredit bank – unicredit.ua . UniCredit Group is a leading European commercial bank with an international network spanning 17 European countries with more than 149,000 employees. It has 950 billion Euros in assets. UniCredit is the largest Italian bank by market capitalization. The…
Loan application data held by AFC Kredieten hacked by Rex Mundi, company responds: Meh, not our customers
Jennifer Baker reports: Hacker collective Rex Mundi has stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, it claims, and if the company doesn’t pay up before Friday at 8pm, it will publish every loan applicant record in its possession. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi has already published…