I started covering Aadhaar years ago on PogoWasRight.org as a data protection mega-disaster waiting to happen. Those early posts are no longer available online, but I’ve continued to watch for news on its implementation and concerns. And while India’s government keeps reiterating that everything is secure and fine, I keep seeing breach/leak reports. So I…
Month: April 2017
The godfather of ransomware returns: Locky is back and sneakier than ever
Danny Palmer reports: The ransomware that drove last year’s boom in file-encrypting malware is back, and this time it’s even harder to detect. Ransomware cost its victims some $1bn during 2016, with Locky one of the most widespread variants, infecting organisations across the globe. However, the start of 2017 saw a sudden decline in the…
Ca: eConcordia System Hacked, Student Info at Risk
Earlier this month, notifications were sent that Concordia’s online course systems, eConcordia and KnowledgeOne, had been hacked. Kelsey Litwin reported: An email sent out on April 11 read that, “specifically that your name, your Concordia ID number and your email address, may have been consulted or obtained” via unauthorized access to the sites’ information system….
Healthcare records for sale on Dark Web
Ryan Francis reports on the cost of a medical record on the dark web, and it’s nice to see Flashpoint agreeing with what some of us have been saying for a while now – that the cost is generally about $1 per record – not the $200 figure you may have read in earlier reports…
U. of California moves to shut down alleged fraudsters misusing more than 500 students’ health insurance plan
UC Office of the President Thursday, April 20, 2017 The University of California today (April 20) announced it has uncovered a massive scheme targeting students through its student health plan that fraudulently obtained student information and then stole almost $12 million from UC by writing phony medical prescriptions in the students’ names. The university plans…
Aadhaar data leak in Jharkhand raises doubts, again: Here are the details
Business Standard reports: An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar’s data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due…