Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hacking crew that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a minor setback yesterday after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared the data with data breach index service LeakedSource. The hacking crew’s name is PoodleCorp, a relatively new unit on the cyber-crime scene,…
Month: August 2016
Bitfinex Suspends Operations after Security Breach
Gautham N reports: One of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges has suspended operations following a security incident which led to the loss of Bitcoin held on the exchange. The breach in the platform’s security was discovered earlier today, after which Bitfinex put all trading activities on hold. According to the statement published by Bitfinex, the breach has affected…
Ohio Urology Hacked, 520K Files, 156GB Leaked – RansomWare files Found!
Early today a hacker using the handle pravyy sector announced a leak of data from Central Ohio Urology and made claims that it was 156GB in total. The dump of data appears to be a copy of a file system from software used in medical practices to help organize and share documents around the local…
Wellington health board’s smear email breached privacy of grieving mother
Nikki MacDonald reports: Wellington health board chief executive Debbie Chin has been censured for sending an all-staff email attacking the reputation of a mother whose son died in the hospital’s care. The Privacy Commission has found the email, sent by the Capital & Coast District Health Board chief executive to all the board’s 3200 staff, breached grieving mother Lyn Copland’s…
Auckland lab tech caught accessing patient records 890 times can return to work
Thomas Manch reports: An Auckland DHB lab technician has been censured after inappropriately prying into medical records. Rosalinda Zabala inappropriately accessed the medical records of patients, including a one-year-old, just short of 900 times in a three year period. Zabala, who worked for the DHB for more than 15 years, admitted her wrongdoing when confronted by management and lost her job in December 2014. Read more…
Central Ohio Urology Group hacked, PHI dumped: hacktivist (Updated)
A Ukrainian hacktivist claims to have hacked and dumped 156 GB of patient data from Central Ohio Urology Group in Ohio. The alleged hack was announced Tuesday morning by the @PravSector account, who posted an unredacted screen shot and a link to the data dump on Google Drive. The data fields in the screen shot…