Kelly Fiveash reports: TalkTalk has turned three workers—based at a call centre provider in India—over to the police, as part of its ongoing investigation into the budget ISP’s security practices, following a major hack on its systems last year. The company added that—in light of the arrests—it was considering ending its partnership with the call centre Wipro,…
Month: January 2016
Suicidal woman who stuck pencils in her eyes settles part of Internet photo suit
Debbie L. Sklar reports an update to a breach lawsuit reported previously on this site: A hospital patient who stuck pencils in her eyes in a suicide attempt, then found out that a photo of her self-mutilation turned up on the Internet three years later, has agreed to settle the part of her lawsuit against Los…
Islamic State-linked hacker makes first US appearance in federal court
Channel NewsAsia reports: A Kosovar citizen accused of hacking the personal data of more than a thousand U.S. officials and sending it to Islamic State militants in Syria appeared in U.S. federal court in Virginia on Wednesday. It was the first time Ardit Ferizi, 20, had publicly appeared in the United States since being extradited…
Dem urges sanctions on North Korea for hacking
Cory Bennett reports: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on Wednesday called on his colleagues to move a bill that would strengthen the government’s ability to sanction North Korea for hacking. “North Korea’s repeated acts of aggression and hostility call for stronger sanctions,” Bennet said in a statement. The bill, known as the North Korea Sanctions Act,…
NCH Healthcare employee data potentially compromised (UPDATED)
ABC7 has confirmed that data on two of NCH Healthcare System‘s computers may have been breached at the Cerner Data Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The information contained on the computer servers includes a medical staff credentialing database and employee information – no patient data was compromised. Read more on ABC7. NCH operates two hospitals: NCH Baker Hospital…
North Carolina State University investigating claimed hack (UPDATED)
On January 17, DataBreaches.net became aware of data that had been uploaded to a paste site on January 15. It claimed to be data from the cwise subdomain of North Carolina State University’s web site. From that site: The NOAA Cooperative Program for Climate & Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment (CWISE) is a collaboration between NOAA’s National Climatic Data…