Sergiiu Gatlan reports: Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector. Read more at BleepingComputer.
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Personal data of nearly 4,000 people leaked in hack of Radio Free Asia
Jonathan Grieg reports: Radio Free Asia, a U.S. government-sponsored news outlet, announced a breach this week that affected almost 4,000 people – leaking troves of personal information including Social Security and passport numbers, as well as financial data. According to documents filed with Maine’s attorney general, the hack occurred on June 17 and was discovered by…
Doctors Center Hospital reports 1.2 million patients affected by ransomware attack
On some as yet undisclosed date, Doctors Center Hospital in Puerto Rico became the victim of a relatively new ransomware group calling themselves Project Relic. To date, Doctors Center Hospital (DCH) has not responded to inquiries sent to it by DataBreaches on November 11 and November 12, and their email appeared to be out of…
DOCS Medical Group discloses September ransomware incident
DOCS Medical Group is an urgent care and primary care provider in Connecticut with multiple locations. They also provide telemedicine services. On September 7, DOCS detected abnormal activity that was quickly identified as a ransomware attack. According to their notification letter to patients dated November 7, an unspecified number of patients had their information on…
The LinkedIn-HiQ Labs Case and Data Scraping in the US: Some Takeaways
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: What does the summary judgment granted to Linkedin in the famous Linkedin-HiQ Labs case teach us about data scraping in the US? Here are some of my thoughts on what the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruling means. Bottom line: Summary judgment was granted to…
Au: Xavier College says stolen student data might be released after hack
Adam Carey reports: Hackers have threatened to publish the personal information of current and prospective students of Xavier College online after a cyberattack, the school says. The hack took place in June, but the school waited until this week to inform the families after it deemed that the number of people whose information had been…