I looked at this news article because it struck me as unusual that a middle school student would be charged with identity theft, but after reading the story, it struck me that this may be more properly understood as a case of online harassment. But then I realized that impersonation accounts can be used for…
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Members of at least two health insurance plans notified of ransomware attack on PracticeMax (updated)
Updated March 7, 2022: PracticeMax reported this incident to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as impacting a total of 165,698 patients. Their updated notice explains that the breach began on April 17, 2021, and they became aware of technical problems on May 1, 2021. The notice also reads, in part: On October 19, 2021, while…
A massive ‘stalkerware’ leak puts the phone data of thousands at risk
Zack Whittaker reports: The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be pulled from a person’s phone because of a security issue in widely used consumer-grade spyware. But that’s about as much as we can tell you….
In: Interstate cyber hackers’ gang busted; 6 held
TNS reports: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of the STF, Sonepat, Gurugram and Panipat police busted an inter-state computer hacker gang involved in getting online competitive exams cleared and arrested six persons in this regard. […] He said they confessed that they had got online and offline exams of Railway clerk, MTS, NIIT,…
Ca: Hackers leak police takedown video, medical records in Durham Region breach by CL0P
Jon Woodward reports: A CTV News Toronto investigation has discovered that a data breach at the Durham Regional government is much larger than already known, including medical reports, complaints about medical treatment, and potential evidence in a criminal case. That data, including security camera video that shows a man’s arrest on a Durham Regional Transit…
Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for ’embarrassing’ breach
Paul Kunert reports: The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an “embarrassing” breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card information was exposed. The museum for computers and video games said it was notified that a unique email address used to book tickets via its website “has…