One of a number of newly disclosed breaches reported by The Register this week was one involving 6 million users of a dating web site, Coffee Meets Bagel. The Register reported that 6,174,513 accounts were listed for sale for 0.13 BTC ($468) total on a dark web marketplace. DataBreaches.net’s investigation revealed that the market was…
Month: February 2019
FL: AdventHealth notifying more than 42,000 patients impacted by hack of one of their facilities
On January 25, ClickOrlando reported: A hack at a pulmonary practice in Tavares might have exposed sensitive patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories. Officials from AdventHealth said in a news release on Friday that an unauthorized third party gained access to systems at AdventHealth Medical Group Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine at Tavares, formerly…
GandCrab ransomware gang infects customers of remote IT support firms
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have used a two-year-old vulnerability in a software package used by remote IT support firms to gain a foothold on vulnerable networks and deploy the GandCrab ransomware on those companies’ customer workstations. At least one company has been hit already, according to a report on Reddit, confirmed by cyber-security firm Huntress…
Aadhaar data breach report incorrect: Delhi High Court told
From the lies-it’s-all-lies dept., IANS reports: NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that reports regarding security breach of data related to Aadhaar is incorrect and misleading as the strongest encryption technology has been used to store data which is impossible to decrypt. “The technology used…
AU: Phishers compromise Optus email accounts
Juha Saarinen reports: Beware malware-laden missives. Email filtering company Mailguard is warning about an active phishing campaign emanating from compromised email accounts hosted on Optus’ optusnet.com.au domain. The messages purport to be advice recipients of remittance advices, invoices and insurance documents that are available for download. Should users click on the links to the documents…
DataCamp notifies users of hack, forces password reset
On February 11, DataCamp discovered that it had been hacked. With thanks to “Russy” for sending this along, the following is DataCamp’s update on the situation, posted today by Robert Cabral: DataCamp Security Update – Frequently Asked Questions What happened? On Monday, February 11, 2019, we discovered that some user data was exposed by a…