Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Month: July 2017
Notorious Russian Hacker With Links To FSB Scandal Sentenced To Prison
Mike Eckel reports: A notorious Russian hacker whose exploits and later arrest gave glimpses into the intersection of computer crime and Russian law enforcement has been sentenced to two years in prison. The Moscow City Court issued its ruling July 6 against Vladimir Anikeyev in a decision made behind closed doors, one indication of the…
Pakistani Man Sentenced for Laundering Millions in Telecom Hacking Scheme
A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…
FL: Notice from Baptist Medical Center South to EEG Patients Regarding a Missing Hard Drive
Baptist Medical Center South (“Baptist South”) is committed to protecting the security and con dentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On May 18, 2017, Baptist South learned that a backup hard drive used for EEG testing was missing from an EEG room. We immediately began…
TN: Ransomware hits one Tennessee city’s emergency services
AP reports: Two branches of a Tennessee city’s emergency services have been hit by ransomware as part of a worldwide malware attack that began in May. […] Norville says most of the affected data is not retrievable, and it is unclear if any significant files have been lost. Two file servers and 19 computers within…
Hackers Linked to NotPetya Ransomware Decrypted a File For Us
Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai report: Hackers linked to the crippling NotPetya ransomware attack, which encrypts files on infected machines, have proved to Motherboard they have the ability to decrypt some locked files. Security researchers have spent much of the last week debating whether victims of NotPetya will ever get their files back, with many…