Allie Coyne reports: More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a publicly-facing website,…
Month: October 2016
Nets data breach puts 100,000 cards at risk
Alex Hamilton reports: Danish payments processor Nets has been hit by a data breach that could have left up to 100,000 credit cards at risk of fraud. The firm, which was floated last month, has linked the breach to a third-party internet retailer based overseas. The processor has notified local banks and suggested they begin…
Nuclear power, defense workers leaking data through unsecure pagers
Joe Uchill reports: Nuclear power plants, chemical plants, defense contractors and other highly sensitive industries and workers are leaking information through their pagers, a new report shows. Pagers have been out of vogue with the public since the rise of the cellphone but are still used to send automated messages from industrial systems or building automation systems….
JPMorgan-Hack-Linked Bitcoin Operator’s Dad to Plead Guilty
Christian Berthelsen reports: A Florida man with ties to an illegal Bitcoin exchange that was allegedly used by hackers who targeted companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co. is scheduled to plead guilty to undisclosed charges Thursday. U.S. prosecutors asked a judge in New York to hold a hearing for Michael Murgio, the father of the…
OMC Targeted in Latest Leak involving Santa Clara University
Sophie Mattson & Jenni Sigl report: In the latest breach of cybersecurity on campus, a trove of internal documents from the Office of Marketing and Communications were leaked by the anonymous hacker SCUWatch. On Oct. 17, this newspaper received an email from an unknown sender containing a file folder labeled “OMC_Leak.” The anonymous sender, who…
Accused hospital computer hacker at Wyatt wages hunger strike
Denise Lavoieap reports: The man who acknowledges he attacked the computer network at world-renowned Boston children’s hospital two years ago, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars, is unapologetic and now waging a hunger strike in prison as he awaits trial. Martin Gottesfeld claims the hospital hacking was to protest the treatment of a teenage…