Nereida Moreno reports: A mail delivery truck carrying the personal information of 2,400 Kaiser Permanente members on the Inland Empire Health Plan was stolen last month from a parking lot in Santa Clarita, officials announced Friday. Michelle Simms, a Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman, said the health care provider reported the theft to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s…
Month: April 2016
Hell froze over. Hacked firm cares more about its users’ security than its corporate image
Graham Cluley tells TruckersMP to take a bow for self-reporting a breach of user data to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned.com site. Let me join in the wild applause. Bravo, TruckersMP!!!!
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It’s All For Sale
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to…
SWIFT Software Bug Exploited by Bangladesh Bank Hackers
Phil Muncaster reports: A bug in SWIFT banking software may have been exploited to allow hackers to make off with $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, according to reports. Investigators at British defense contractor BAE Systems told Reuters that the malware in question, evtdiag.exe, had been designed to change code in SWIFT’s Access…
Church website hacked by extremist Islamic group
Rebecca Russell reports that the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in Michigan was defaced with a message purportedly from the United Cyber Caliphate. A video from the United Cyber Caliphate automatically played reading, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted”. The church’s website…
WA: Vancouver student expelled for hacking high school email system
KPTV reports: A Vancouver Public School District spokesperson said Skyview High School email system was hacked early Tuesday morning by a student. Communications Director Patricia Nuzzo said the student was “emergency expelled” until appropriate disciplinary action can be determined. Nuzzo added the student hacked into a teacher email account and sent six different messages to more…