Business Standard reports: Navi Mumbai Police has arrested two corporate executives for stealing data of a leading online store and selling it to other companies. The duo, one of them a director of a company named Viral and the other CEO of another firm Expertthought, were apprehended last week, Inspector Pratiba Shendge attached to Cyber…
Month: November 2015
MoD-founded firm Niteworks loses login creds of UK defence folk
Alexander J. Martin reports: Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords of British defence community members. An email seen by The Register, sent to Niteworks’ network members, confessed that “the database holding the login information for the members’ area in the niteworks.net website…
FBI alerts Owensboro Health to Breach at Muhlenberg Hospital; Breach Began in January, 2012
The breach in question may have begun in January, 2012, years before OH Muhlenberg acquired Muhlenberg Community Hospital, but it potentially impacted all patients, all payment guarantors, employees and some credentialed providers after that date and before OH Muhlenberg learned of the breach and contained it. This incident does not yet appear on HHS’s public…
UK: Nutmeg customers caught in data breach
Ruth Gilbe reports: Personal data including names, addresses and investment details of dozens of customers of Nutmeg were accidentally emailed to the wrong people following a system glitch. In a report by FTAdviser’s parent paper the Financial Times, Nutmeg said due to a fault with the code running its service, the company had emailed more than…
Mystery Remains of Who Had Fingers on Keyboard in JPMorgan Hack
Michael Riley and Chris Strohm report: A key figure is missing in the court documents outlining the biggest computer attack ever of the U.S. financial system: the actual hacker. The Israeli mastermind of the crime syndicate with global operations — computer servers in Egypt, online casinos in Ukraine and Hungary, Azerbaijan payment processors and a…
Speaking of “We have met the enemy, and he is us….”
RT reports that Russian TV accidentally leaked a secret ‘nuclear torpedo’ design. Yes, you read that correctly. The Kremlin has confirmed “some secret data” was accidentally leaked when Russian TV stations broadcast material apparently showing blueprints from a nuclear torpedo, designed to be used against enemy coastal installations. During President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with military…