Tara Seals reports: After 500 million LinkedIn enthusiasts were affected in a data-scraping incident in April, it’s happened again – with big security ramifications. A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on…
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Ca: SIM card theft: Discount provider, discount protection?
Tristan Peloquin reports: Telus customers who were victims of SIM card scams are sounding the alarm on apparent flaws in the company’s security systems. An employee of its discount subsidiary Public Mobile even told a customer that the service she uses is “more at risk than others” because she pays less. “If you pay for…
FL: Physicians Dialysis Provides Notification of Data Security Incident
The following is a press release from Physicians Dialysis. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Physicians Dialysis has learned of a data security incident that involved personal information and protected health information belonging to certain current and former patients and employees. On March 21, 2021, Physicians Dialysis discovered unusual activity within its digital environment. Upon discovering this…
NZ: Waikato DHB working to notify those affected by dark web leak
When DataBreaches.net spotted a dump with data from the Waikato DHB ransomware incident on a new dark web leak site, we wondered whether it was the data originally provided to journalists as proof or if this was a larger dump. It now appears to be a larger dump. Laura James reports: Waikato DHB’s tonight confirmed…
Ca: Mounties suspected person leaking secrets had high-level computer access, search warrants show
Scott Anderson and Andrew Culbert report: The RCMP suspected someone senior in its ranks was offering to spill secrets, but still didn’t know the identity of the alleged leaker for several months after they first learned highly confidential information about investigations had been compromised. The revelation is contained in court documents unsealed late last week…
UK: Barrow computer hacker tapped into school network and brought down Labour website
Melissa Major reports: A computer hacker who brought down the Labour general election candidate’s website and tapped into a school network has been given a suspended sentence. Bradley Kai Hayden Niblock, 22, was caught after the Cyber and Digital Crime Unit followed a pattern of online offending last year. Niblock, of Hawcoat Lane, Barrow, admitted…