Paul O’Donnell reports: Credit card information for customers dining at Truluck’s Seafood, Steak & Crab House in downtown Dallas and Southlake might have been copied by malware inserted into point of sale systems at the restaurants, the company announcedWednesday. The Houston-based chain said the data breach occurred in November and December at the two Dallas-Fort Worth restaurants,…
Month: February 2019
Game of Thrones hacker worked with US defector to hack Air Force employees for Iran
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice unsealed today espionage-related charges against a former US Air Force service member who defected to Iran and helped the country’s hackers target her former Air Force colleagues. Besides charges and an arrest warrant issued in the name of the former USAF service member, the DOJ also indicted…
Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City notifies 3,472 patients after surgery schedules stolen from nurse anesthetist’s car
The notice on their web site: Notice to Our Patients of Recent Privacy Incident Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving some of that information. On December 16, 2018, we learned from an…
2019 Data Breach Barometer Report Shows Massive Increase in Exposed Healthcare Records
HIPAA Journal reports: Protenus has released its 2019 Breach Barometer report: An analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 2018. The data for the report came from Databreaches.net, which tracks data breaches reported in the media as well as breach notifications sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and…
How Google Tracks Hackers
From Motherboard: …. Although Google’s own hacker hunting team is focused more on protecting Google users than selling a particular threat intelligence product, the task is essentially much the same; find the bad guys, understand what they’re doing, and let others know so users can be safer online. […] This week, CYBER host Ben Makuch talks…
‘Hackers’ Charged by U.S. Over Hundreds of Hoax Bomb Threats on Schools
Dell Cameron reports: An alleged hacker accused of sending fake bomb threats to hundreds of schools was reportedly arrested Tuesday by FBI agents in North Carolina, while an alleged accomplice, who is currently incarcerated in the U.K., now faces charges in the U.S. Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 20, is facing an 11-count federal indictment, including charges…