Joseph Marks reports: It took the General Services Administration more than 800 days to notify a handful of people that it had accidentally exposed their personal information, according to an audit released Friday. In another case, the agency took six months just to determine that a data breach related to background investigation information had occurred,…
Month: October 2018
Recent attempts to extort me
Sometimes I tweet these, but I thought that I’d post the most recent three emails demanding I pay extortion or else the criminals will allegedly post video of me that they captured while I allegedly masturbated while allegedly watching a porno site. I say “allegedly” although the criminals try to write as this is all…
Super Micro trashes Bloomberg chip hack story in recent customer letter
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a letter sent to customers last week, Super Micro Computer (dba Supermicro) has thrashed a Bloomberg article that claimed the company’s motherboards contained a secret chip inserted by the Chinese government for cyber-espionage purposes. “We are confident that a recent article, alleging a malicious hardware chip was implanted during the manufacturing…
National Ambulatory Hernia Institute notifies almost 16,000 patients of Gamma ransomware attack
On October 5, HHS received a HIPAA breach notification from the National Ambulatory Hernia Institute in California. According to the notification, the incident affected 15,974 patients. A notice prominently displayed on NAHI’s site explains that there was a ransomware incident on September 13. URGENT NOTICE – DATA BREACH SUSPECTED URGENT NOTICE: Our office has experienced a…
Indiana National Guard reports ransomware attack to server
WISH-TV reports: The Indiana National Guard revealed Thursday that a state, nonmilitary server with identifying information of its personnel was the subject of a ransomware attack. The Guard said in a news release from Master Sgt. Jeff Lowry: “As a result of this action we are in the process of notifying personnel that may be affected,…
Hack on 8 adult websites exposes oodles of intimate user data
Dan Goodin reports: A recent hack of eight poorly secured adult websites has exposed megabytes of personal data that could be damaging to the people who shared pictures and other highly intimate information on the online message boards. Included in the leaked file are (1) IP addresses that connected to the sites, (2) user passwords…