Justin Shafer, who was raided by the FBI in May after reporting that he found protected health information (PHI) leaking from a public FTP server, was raided by the FBI again today. Shafer, a dental technician and active researcher of patient management software systems in the dental field, routinely searches for and uncovers exposed PHI. He notifies…
Month: January 2017
Witcher 3 dev forums hacked, 1.8 million accounts stolen
Dale Walker reports: Polish game development studio CD Projekt RED has had more than 1.8 million user credentials stolen from its online forum, according to data breach notification website ‘Have I Been Pwned?‘. The studio, which is famous for developing the highly successful Witcher franchise, was breached in March 2016 when hackers targeted its online…
US charges 104 in Florida in latest ID theft-fraud roundup
AP reports: Federal authorities have charged 104 people with numerous identity theft and fraud offenses in the latest South Florida crackdown on a rampant problem involving tens of thousands of stolen personal identities. […] In one of the largest cases, an employee at Miami’s Jackson Health System is accused of stealing identities from 24,000 people…
Spanish Police Raided Suspects Linked to Notorious Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Police forces in Spain have raided several suspects linked to a cyberattack against the the union of the Catalan police Mossos D’Esquadra on Tuesday. That attack was carried out in May of last year by Phineas Fisher, a hacker who gained notoriety for exposing the secrets of spyware vendors FinFisher and Hacking Team. Several Spanish newspapers reported news…
Info of 200,000 Indycar race fans exposed in misconfigured backup
Chris Vickery writes: The online security of over 200,000 Indycar racing fans was put in jeopardy recently. Earlier this month I discovered a large collection of publicly exposed MySQL database backup files at an IP resolving to ims-mysql.indycar.com. The majority of these backups appear to be merely operational, but what stands out are the Indycar…
MLB fines Cardinals $2 million for computer hack
Brian Feldt reports: Major League Baseball on Monday afternoon ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million and turn over two 2017 draft selections to the Houston Astros as a result of a former Cardinals employee hacking the Astros’ computer system. The league’s decision also permanently banned Chris Correa, who was fired by the Cardinals in July 2015…