Here’s another case where a 2016 phishing incident wasn’t detected until 2017: Ice Miller LLP represents Equian, LLC and its subsidiaries, including Nurse Audit, LLC (“collectively referred to herein as “Equian”). We are writing to notify you of a security incident involving the personal information of one (1) New Hampshire resident. On or about March…
Month: May 2017
Data leak reveals details of 70,000 offshore firms in Malta, German state minister claims
The Times of Malta reports: A data leak has revealed information about 70,000 offshore companies in Malta, a German state minister claimed this morning. North Rhine-Westphalia finance minister Norbert Walter-Borjans said the data also included information about several German corporations and up to 2,000 German taxpayers. Tax authorities in the city of Wuppertal obtained the data through…
NL: Cop claims entrapment in police data leak arrest
Janene Pieters reports: The trial against former police officer Mark M., suspected of selling police information to criminals, was delayed until at least December so that other witnesses can be questioned. In court on Tuesday M. said that he searched the police database as a “hobby”, though refused to explain how the data he searched…
Company Awarded Damages After Former Employee Hacks Its Systems and Hijacks Its Website
Michael Bertoncini writes: A company can recover damages from its former employee in connection with his hacking into its payroll system to inflate his pay, accessing its proprietary files without authorization and hijacking its website, a federal court ruled. Tyan, Inc. v. Yovan Garcia, Case No. CV 15-05443- MWF (JPRx) (C.D. Cali. May 2, 2017). The…
Funding Circle Error Exposes 6,000 SSNs Of American Clients
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports that Kromtech Security Research Center has been pretty busy this week: An upcoming London-based business loans provider, Funding Circle, left a database containing 6,000 social security numbers of American clients exposed to anyone on the internet, it emerged Wednesday. The company, which has helped companies bypass banks to borrow more than $1.5…
Confidential medical records from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital exposed online by vendor’s error
Vendor’s error appears to have exposed personal and confidential medical data of patients seen at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center since 2014; Records also include addiction histories, psych histories, and histories of physical or sexual abuse; Hospital investigating to determine what happened and who may have accessed data. By now, you may be tired of reading reports on misconfigured MongoDB installations…