Black River Medical Center in Missouri has sent notification letters to an unspecified number of patients potentially affected by a phishing incident discovered in April. Here is their June 13 notice from their web site: Black River Medical Center has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent…
Month: June 2018
Bithumb $31 Million Crypto Exchange Hack: What We Know (And Don’t)
Wolfie Zhao reports: On Wednesday, roughly 35 billion Korean won (around $31 million) in cryptocurrency was stolen by hackers from the South Korea-based exchange Bithumb. Although the breach may not be as severe as the $530 million hack of the Coincheck exchange earlier this year, the fact that Bithumb now ranks as the sixth biggest…
AU: University of New South Wales loses data after IBM storage failure
Julian Bajkowski reports: UNSW students are facing the prospect that some information saved to the university’s online storage has been lost for good after a 16 hour-long outage this month blamed on IBM. “Regrettably, some students may have lost some data in the outage,” UNSW said in a statement to students. The statement advised that…
Flightradar24 suffers security breach
Ry Crozier reports: Popular flight tracking site Flightradar24 has suffered a security breach that “may” have compromised the email addresses and hashed passwords of “a small subset” of users. Users began receiving emails overnight asking them to reset their passwords, and the company later confirmed in multiple forums the emails were genuine. Read more on…
Hackers stole feds’ information four years ago. Now we know what criminals did with it.
Wow. Rachel Weiner reports that data in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack may have shown up as part of a fraud scheme: Four years after hackers stole personal information from over 22 million people through the Office of Personnel Management, a fraud scheme exploiting that data has come to light in southeast Virginia….
95 e-commerce fraudsters arrested in international operation – Europol
From Europol: 95 professional fraudsters and members of internet-based criminal networks suspected of online fraud activities were arrested during the 2018 e-Commerce Action (eComm 2018), a joint law enforcement operation supported by 28 countries1 from 4 to 15 June 2018. The main goal was to target online fraud through a coordinated law enforcement action within…