Update Feb. 2, 2017: The list for 2017 has been moved to its own post that will be updated as more incidents are reported. Original post: First it was Dracut Schools. Then it was Tipton County Schools and then Odessa School District whose employees had their SSN and information from W-2 forms acquired by criminals in phishing…
Month: January 2017
Patient claims identity stolen after confidential files compromised at DC social services agency
Tisha Lewis reports: After a security breach occurred at a Southeast D.C. contractor for the District’s Department of Behavioral Health, a patient is claiming his identity has been stolen. His accusation comes a week after FOX 5 reported that a case worker at Inner City Family Services is alleged of hiring a complete stranger to do some of her work…
Has LeakedSource.com been raided by feds?
Zack Whittaker reports: LeakedSource, a for-profit breach notification site that helped break the news of some of last year’s largest data breaches, has apparently been raided by law enforcement. News of the raid, which can’t be confirmed at the time of writing, first broke on Thursday through a note posted on a vritual markets forum earlier in…
TX: Cockrell Hill police lose some evidence in ransomware attack
Jason Trahan reports that when the Cockrell Hill Police Department server was infected with ransomware after an employee clicked on a link in an email that appeared to be from the department, the department decided not to pay the $4,000 ransom demand. As a result, Trahan reports, the department lost some video evidence and a…
Delhi hackers, digital shoplifters who tampered data of e-commerce portals
Shiv Sunny reports: Four young hackers have been arrested for allegedly digitally shoplifting vouchers worth Rs92 lakh [$134,985.29 USD] by tampering with the data of e-commerce websites at the payment gateway stage. Two of them are BTech dropouts, one is pursuing engineering while the other is a BCA from Delhi University, police said. Calling it…
Ca: Break-in prompts hospital to assess possible patient privacy breach
George Mathewson and Troy Shantz report: Bluewater Health has contacted the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario about a potential breach of confidential patient information stemming from a break-in at the former Sarnia General Hospital site. […] On Jan. 18, Sarnia Police reported a 30-year-old woman had been arrested after allegedly exiting a taxi and leaving behind…