Huntington Hospital in New York has disclosed an insider-wrongdoing incident that occurred between October 2018 and February 2019. Although they determined in February, 2019 that the now-former employee was engaging in unauthorized access to patient records, and suspended the employee (and eventually terminated the employment), they were asked to delay notification to those impacted until…
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Data Breach Spreads To Six Web Hosts
Roger Montti reports: The GoDaddy data breach that affected up to 1.2 million web hosts has expanded to six more web hosts serving customers worldwide. The six additional compromised web hosts are resellers of GoDaddy’s hosting services. The extent of the intrusion appears to be the same as with GoDaddy, with matching dates of when…
At least 3 Quad-Cities municipalities have fallen victim to cyber attacks
Sarah Watson reports: … In the Quad-Cities, at least three local governments paid out more than $100,000 to scammers. In all three cases, the criminals emailed local government officials pretending to be legitimate vendors the cities worked with. Rock Island County paid $115,000. LeClaire wired more than $222,000 in a similar case. Moline paid roughly…
Bureau Veritas hit by cyberattack on cybersecurity system
Ship Technology reports: French firm Bureau Veritas, which specialises in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services, has reported a cyberattack that affected its cybersecurity system. The security breach was detected on 20 November. As a preventive measure, the company took all its servers and data offline for a temporary period. Read more on Ship Technology.
Ph: Personal data of 22,000 S&R shopping members compromised in cyber attack
Gabriela Baron reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Wednesday, Nov. 24, said the personal data of 22,000 S&R members were compromised following a recent cyber attack. In a statement, NPC confirmed the receipt of a breach notification report on Nov. 15 from S&R Membership Shopping concerning a cyber attack “that may have compromised its…
Jury Convicts Maryland Man for Membership in Computer Fraud and Identity Theft Ring that Targeted State Governments
November 23 — A jury yesterday voted to convict Guy Cuomo a/k/a “John Monaco,” age 54, of Frederick, Maryland, of computer fraud, misuse of a social security number, aggravated identity theft and related conspiracy charges for his role in a scheme to sell information unlawfully obtained from the New York State Department of Labor and…