Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. The testing laboratory has long alleged that: Tiversa illegally obtained a 1,178-page computer file containing confidential data on more than 9,000 LabMD patients back in 2008; lied…
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Tulsa Tech hit by data breach
NewsOn6 reports: Tulsa Tech says someone stole data belonging to students who were enrolled in its classes between 1986 and 1999. According to the school, someone accessed the district’s systems in June and took files from the network, including the names and Social Security numbers of students. Read more at NewsOn6.
HC3 Threat Profile: Evil Corp
The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
TH: Major Cineplex and Major Development PCL hit by DESORDEN
DESORDEN has hit another big business in Thailand. This time it is the largest cinema chain and its subsidiary property development company. As DESORDEN informs DataBreaches, the Major Development PCL was breached during the first week of August and contacted by DESORDEN on August 17. “The management refused to respond and we attacked their main…
A huge Chinese database of faces and vehicle license plates spilled online
Zack Whittaker reports: While its contents might seem unremarkable for China, where facial recognition is routine and state surveillance is ubiquitous, the sheer size of the exposed database is staggering. At its peak the database held over 800 million records, representing one of the biggest known data security lapses of the year by scale, second…
FBI, Secret Service join Kentucky investigation into $4 million cybercrime theft
Jonathan Greig reports: The government of Lexington, Kentucky is working with the FBI and Secret Service to investigate $4 million in federal rent assistance and housing funds allegedly stolen by cybercriminals. In a statement to The Record, Mayor Linda Gorton said the city is already taking internal steps to examine how cybercriminals managed to circumvent…