We often hear about the challenges rural hospitals face in preventing and responding to cyberattacks. Here’s an article that provides some numbers for context. Don Gronning reports: Small hospitals have been a target of cyber criminals, hospital district CEO Kim Manus told Pend Oreille Hospital District No. 1 commissioners at their regular meeting Thursday, July…
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Florida prison data breach exposes visitors’ contact information to inmates
Mitch Perry reports: Dozens and perhaps hundreds of individuals who applied to visit inmates at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County last weekend had their personal contact information shared with every inmate at that facility, according to five different individuals who have spoken to the Phoenix over the past four days. The Florida Department…
Experian Wins Appeal to Send Data Breach Victim to Arbitration
Ufonobong Umanah reports: Experian Information Solutions produced sufficient evidence to show that a data breach victim who signed up for the company’s credit monitoring service agreed to arbitrate rather than litigate her claims, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, reversing a lower court. The plaintiff sued under the Fair Credit Reporting Act after noticing her credit file…
ICANN sends breach notice to domain registrar Webnic about failure to deal with DNS abuse compliants properly
Andrew Allemann reports: ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc, a fairly large domain name registrar in Asia. WebNic has about 500,000 .com domain names under management in addition to domains in other extensions. ICANN says the registrar is not complying with Section 3.18.2 of the registrar accreditation agreement, which…
Canadian cybercriminal sentenced to a year in prison for NFT theft scheme
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Canadian was sentenced yesterday to a year in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, in May 2022, Cameron Albert Redman, 22, of Mississauga, Ontario, formed a scheme to steal non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by gaining unauthorized access to…
Oops! Catasauqua employees’ Social Security numbers, other data accidentally sent to government watchdog group
Daniel Patrick Sheehan reports: Responding to a Right-to-Know Law request from a government watchdog group, Catasauqua accidentally released unredacted W-2 tax forms of 70 employees and former employees, exposing their Social Security numbers and other personal data, a borough official confirmed. Borough Manager Glenn Eckhart said the incident happened last month when the group, Open the…