Bradley Barth reports: If you thought too much MSG was the most dangerous thing about ordering Chinese food, consider this: the website for the upscale Mr. Chow restaurants has reportedly been compromised to deliver ransomware to visitors. According to a blog post by Malwarebytes, hackers injected pseudo-Darkleech malware directly into the website’s page, triggering a secondary ransomware infection via the Neutrino…
Month: September 2016
Ukrainian nationalist hackers blamed for leaking personal information of journalists
Fil Warwick reports: Hundreds of Ukrainian journalists and foreign correspondents woke up one August morning to find their contact information – and even passport details – published online as part of a leak blamed on hackers. It’s the second leak to target Ukraine-based journalists in the last four months. The contents of the first leak –…
Southwest Portland Dental notifies patients of Patterson Dental breach
There’s a somewhat interesting follow-up to a situation DataBreaches.net first reported in February. Back then, DataBreaches.net had reported that 22,000 patients from several health care providers had their PHI exposed on an FTP server that Patterson Dental used to provide support documentation for its Eaglesoft software. That report was based on information and screenshots provided by a researcher….
Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Extensive Computer Hacking Scheme Involving Nearly 50 Victims
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRADER YELVERTON, age 24, of Thibodaux, pled guilty on Tuesday to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with unauthorized access of a protected computer. According to court documents, between about 2013 and December 2015, YELVERTON accessed the personal online accounts, including email, educational, social media, and “cloud” storage accounts of at least…
Bitcoin Exchange BTC-E and BitcoinTalk Forum Breaches
Two Bitcoin related websites were hacked, namely Btc-E.com (a Bitcoin exchange acting similar to a foreign currency exchange) and Bitcointalk.org (the largest Bitcoin discussion forum in the world). BTC-E.com Btc-E.com had 568,355 users hacked in October of 2014. Btc-E.com data contains usernames, emails, passwords, ip addresses, register dates, languages and some internal data such as how…
Dutch privacy regulator receives 3,400 data breach reports
Telecompaper reports: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens – AP) has received 3,400 reports of data leaks since new rules on reporting such incidents took effect 01 January. AP vice chairman Wilbert Thomesen told BNR that this was not considered a high amount, given the around 135,000 businesses and organisation handling personal data that…