Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
Month: October 2015
SC: Employee fired after Bon Secours St. Francis Health System data breach discovered
Liv Osby reports: An employee at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been terminated after hospital officials discovered that she had inappropriately accessed personal patient information. Hospital employees began reporting in July that their insurers had recorded unpaid balances and charges for a prescription cream, officials said in a statement. An investigation concluded on…
Hacking cars in the style of Stuxnet
Hacking cars in the style of Stuxnet András Szijj1, Levente Buttyán1, Zsolt Szalay2 1 CrySyS Lab, Department of Networked Systems and Service 2 Department of Automobiles and Vehicle Manufacturing Budapest University of Technology and Economics Overheads at http://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/publications/carhacking-Hacktivity-2015.pdf
TX: Emergence Health Network notifies 11,100 mental health patients of possible PHI breach
First, their press release: (El Paso, Texas October 16, 2015) Emergence Health Network (EHN) is in the process of contacting individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. An EHN computer server was compromised in August through an unauthorized internet connection. The affected computer server was disabled to minimize a compromise. It is not…
UK: Experian rules out GOV.UK Verify changes after T-mobile data breach
Neil Merrett reports: Experian has opted against making any immediate changes to the service it offers as a contracted identity provider for GOV.UK Verify following an unrelated data breach last month of one of its servers that contained some identifying information of T-Mobile customers in the US. Experian is among five companies currently accredited to…
The Guardian Email Gaffe Exposes Email Addresses of 501 App Beta Testers
Oops. The Guardian was forced to apologize this morning after it inadvertently exposed the email addresses of 501 people (including myself) who volunteered to beta test an upcoming version of the publication’s iOS app. The email addresses were located in the “to” field of the email announcing the beta test instead of the more appropriate “BCC”…