The following is a Bankers Life announcement of a security incident that appears on HHS’s public breach tool under the name “CNO Financial Group, Inc.” According to the report to HHS, the breach affected 566,217 members protected health information. On October 25, Bankers Life1 notified certain customers about a data security issue. We take the…
Month: November 2018
The theft of an Auckland legal aid lawyer’s laptop compromises 80 cases
Julie Iles reports: A stolen, unprotected work laptop has put at risk the confidential details of more than 80 legal aid clients. The laptop was taken in a September burglary of the home of a recently resigned legal aid lawyer, Ministry of Justice chief operating officer Carl Crafar said. The laptop contained the confidential details…
VirtualBox zero-day published by disgruntled researcher
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a zero-day published by researcher Sergey Zelenyuk and his decision to go public instead of going through the usual system of notification, waiting, etc. Some of the issues he raises are ones that I have been hearing about recently from other researchers who are disenchanted, to say the least, with the…
Protenus releases its Q3 report on breaches involving health data
Protenus has released its Q3 report on breaches involving health data. As explained in their methodology, since its inception in 2016, Protenus reports have not confined themselves to just using data from HHS’s public breach tool (“The Wall of Shame”). Instead, the Protenus reports, using data compiled by DataBreaches.net, include data from incidents also involving…
Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io
ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou writes: On November 3, attackers successfully breached StatCounter, a leading web analytics platform. This service is used by many webmasters to gather statistics on their visitors – a service very similar to Google Analytics. To do so, webmasters usually add an external JavaScript tag incorporating a piece of code from…
Card data of 20,000 Pakistani bank users sold on dark web: report
Dunya News reports: Echoes pertaining to the sale of Pakistani bank users’ credit and debit cards in black market continues to resonate. An international report suggests that the card data of at least 20,000 Pakistani bank users have been sold at the dark web. It includes 22 Pakistani banks and 19,864 cards. In the first…