KFOR-TV and K. Querry report that Oklahoma Heart Hospital is notifying 1,221 patients following a January burglary that resulted in the theft of four desktop computers from an outpatient clinic. The computers reportedly contained patient information like names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and clinical information. Read more on KFOR-TV. NewsOfToday has additional details…
Month: March 2019
Rural Jackson County, Ga., recovering from Ryuk ransomware attack after paying $400,000 ransom
On March 6, Benjamin Freed reported: Computer systems in rural Jackson County, Georgia, were knocked offline over the weekend after being hit with a ransomware virus. The entire county government’s email system is offline, and some departments, including law enforcement, have had to resort to conducting their operations entirely on paper. “Everything we have is…
Three Romanian citizens plead guilty to participating in a multi-million dollar “vishing and smishing” scheme
ATLANTA – Robert Codrut Dumitrescu pleaded guilty to federal charges of wire fraud conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme, orchestrated from Romania, which resulted in the illegal intrusion into computer servers in the United States, deployment of phishing messages to thousands of victims, and subsequent theft of…
Citrix discloses security breach of internal network
Catalin Cimpanu reports: American software company Citrix disclosed today a security breach during which hackers accessed the company’s internal network. In a short statement posted on its blog, Citrix Chief Security Information Officer Stan Black said Citrix found out about the hack from the FBI earlier this week. Read more on ZDNet.
Tufts expelled a student for grade hacking. She claims innocence
Zack Whittaker dives into the case of a Tufts veterinary student expelled for allegedly hacking Tufts to try to alter grades. As he reports in his meticulously researched and detailed piece: The case Tufts presented seems compelling, if not entirely believable. There’s just one problem: In almost every instance that the school accused Filler of…
That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-plus BILLION. (UPDATED: No, don’t. Those claims are not supported)
Update 1: Vinny Troia contacted me to question DynaRisk’s claims. He informs this site that he has all four databases, has all of the data that is in the Dynarisk screenshots, and there is nowheres near 2 billion records. So it seems that this questions is unsettled as yet. DataBreaches.net will be contacting Dynarisk. Update…