Ah, I knew we’d start seeing a lot more of these phishing for W-2 scams. Earlier today, it was a district in Tennessee. Now I learn that eight districts in Missouri that were hit, although it’s not yet clear whether it was the same phishing email/criminals or not. This scammer had files sent to a…
Month: January 2017
Ca: Grey Eagle Resort & Casino hacked; hackers threaten to dump sensitive employee and customer info
From the this-looks-like-it-is-going-to-get-ugly-really-quickly dept.: There was a somewhat ominous message posted on Pastebin on January 24: Grey Eagle Resort and Casino has been hacked hundreds of gigabytes of data has been stolen and will be released in several data dumps data includes customer gambling habits and gambling debt customer information names, DOB, phone numbers, Email, SIN…
Covenant – Saginaw fires employee who improperly accessed 6,000 patients’ records
Brianna Owczarzak & Kate Nadolski report that an employee who improperly accessed thousands of patients’ files was fired after the Covenant in Saginaw detected the improper access through an audit: The hospital sent letters to more than 6,000 individuals who may have been affected. One of those people is Gabriella Economous. “I received a letter from…
Google Removes Ransomware-Laden App From Play Store
Jai Vijayan reports: A ransomware sample that was recently discovered embedded in an Android application on Google Play Store suggests that threat actors may have found a dangerous new way to get extortion malware on mobile devices. The malware, dubbed Charger, is believed to be the first instance of ransomware being successfully uploaded to Google’s…
Dirty secrets of 180,000 users of a porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ photos are leaked
Shivali Best reports: Users of a shady porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ pictures of women could have their dirty secrets exposed. Personal details of 180,000 users of The Candid Board have been uploaded to the internet after a security breach, along with details of their time of last login. Among the details were 68 military…
Ex-Goldman Sachs computer programmer busted again for stealing code
Barbara Ross reports: A computer programmer who copied Goldman Sachs’ confidential recipe for making money in high frequency trades is guilty — again — of theft, an appellate court ruled Tuesday. The judges said a lower court judge was wrong to toss Sergey Aleynikov‘s conviction in 2015 of unlawfully using secret scientific material, a low level…