Joseph Cox reports: This week a cybersecurity company called Transmit Security, that focuses on providing corporate clients with tools to securely log users into different services, notified customers of a data breach at the firm. The breach impacted over a thousand email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and other sensitive information, according to a researcher mentioned…
Month: February 2020
Facial-Recognition Company That Works With Law Enforcement Says Entire Client List Was Stolen
Betsy Swan reports: A facial-recognition company that contracts with powerful law-enforcement agencies just reported that an intruder stole its entire client list, according to a notification the company sent to its customers. In the notification, which The Daily Beast reviewed, the startup Clearview AI disclosed to its customers that an intruder “gained unauthorized access” to its list…
Rady’s Children’s Hospital notifies patients whose data were accessed via an open port
Rady’s Children Hospital in San Diego has been notifying patients whose information was accessed without authorization via an open port on the Internet. According to their notification, reproduced below, the unauthorized access first occurred on June 20, 2019, and was discovered on January 3, 2020. They do not explain how they first became aware of…
Medical Records From Shuttered Mental Health Clinic Found Dumped In West Englewood Alley
Tara Molina reports: Hundreds of pieces of paper containing people’s most sensitive information were found dumped in an alley. The papers were mental health records from a South Side center that closed years ago. CBS 2’s Tara Molina worked Tuesday to determine how they ended up on the street. […] We found the documents are…
Ex-Mossad chief says Likud app leaks as dangerous to Israel as coronavirus
The Times of Israel reports: A former head of the Mossad spy agency sounded the alarm Wednesday about an app operated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party ahead of next week’s elections, warning that using it was “a real security threat” and likening the level of danger it poses to that of the deadly…
Chrome 80 update cripples top cybercrime marketplace
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A small change in the Google Chrome 80 browser has had a devastating effect on one of today’s top cybercrime marketplaces. According to new research shared with ZDNet this week by threat intelligence firm KELA, the Genesis Store is currently going through a rough patch, seeing a 35% drop in the number of hacked…