Matthew Field reports: Hackers are offering Black Friday discounts for stolen credit card details being bought and sold on the dark web as they seek to cash in on an online shopping bonanza. Security experts including the FBI, the UK’s cyber defence agency and online security firms have warned of a wave of hacking and fraud as criminals…
Month: November 2018
PageUp investigation found no evidence of data theft, company says
Rohan Pearce has an update to a breach that was first disclosed in June, 2018: HR software company PageUp says that a forensic expert it engaged to examine its systems has found “no specific evidence” that data was stolen during a security breach earlier this year. Read more on Computerworld.
Tandigm Health notifying 7,000 patients after discovering vulnerability that might have exposed patient data in 2017
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Tandigm Health (Tandigm), a value-based healthcare company that supports health plans by collaborating with primary care physicians to enhance and improve patient care, announced today that it is sending letters to patients about a recent security incident involving patient information. On September 25, 2018, Tandigm discovered a potential vulnerability in…
Valley Health sending letters to 857 patients possibly affected by security breach
Valley Health is one of those affected by the recently disclosed Inova Health System breach. You can read a report on the Valley Health aspect on Winchester Star.
FL: Key Dental Group notifies patients because former EMR vendor will not return patient database
The following is not your typical breach notification. It relates to a situation in which a business associate allegedly refuses to return the patient database despite its EULA and HIPAA obligation. The press release does not indicate whether the covered entity, Key Dental Group, is suing its former vendor to recover the database. Nor does…
Ukrainian police arrest hacker who infected over 2,000 users with DarkComet RAT
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukrainian police have arrested a 42-old-man on charges of infecting over 2,000 users across 50 countries with the DarkComet remote access trojan (RAT). The man was arrested this week after police executed a search warrant at his residence in the city of Lviv, in Western Ukraine. Read more on ZDNet.