Hilary Bird reports: An N.W.T man says he found hundreds of confidential medical records at the Fort Simpson dump. The documents contain detailed information about patients’ mental health and history of drug use, including applications to addictions treatment facilities, progress reports from those facilities, and detailed notes from one-on-one counselling sessions. The documents, many of…
Month: December 2018
Hackers fooled Save the Children into sending $1 million to a phony account
Todd Wallack reports: Save the Children Federation, one of the country’s best-known charities said it was the victim of a $1 million cyberscam last year. The Connecticut-based nonprofit said hackers broke into a worker’s e-mail, posed as an employee, and created false invoices and other documents, to fool the charity into sending nearly $1 million…
Personal information of 541k individuals has been stolen from an emergency contact database after the website of the French Ministry of Europe breached
Sergiu Gatlan reports: According to the Ministry’s public statement, the hackers managed to get their hands on the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of all people who had an account on the French Ariane emergency contact database. The platform is used by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to allow citizens traveling abroad to…
GA: Mind & Motion notifies 16,000 after ransomware attack
One of the newer incidents appearing on HHS’s public breach tool this week is a report from Mind & Motion, LLC in Georgia. Mind & Motion offers various types of therapeutic modalities. On September 30th, 2018, they discovered that their server had been attacked with ransomware. In a notification to patients, they write: We have…
Breaches have consequences: Finnish trafi safety boss resigns over privacy breach
YLE reports: The head of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Mia Nykopp has resigned after a privacy breach that allowed details about every driver in the country to be easily accessible online. […] Since July it has been possible to view details of every driver’s license online, and to check if they have a valid license. Trafi shut…
ASI Computer Systems notifies customers after discovering support site compromise of login credentials
ASI Computers is notifying some of their customers after discovering on November 1, 2018 that usernames and passwords on a support web site had been hacked prior to December 2016. From their notification to California: ASI confirmed which credentials had been exposed by the following day, November 2, 2018. ASI determined the affected credentials related…