Kim Hjelmgaard and Elizabeth Weise report: Information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen from the company in 2014 and the company believes that a state-sponsored actor was behind the hack. The information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions…
Category: Business Sector
Dozens of clinics, thousands of patients impacted by third-party data leak
EMR4all, Inc. was a California business providing free EMR software to physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy practices that used their associated patient billing service, Rehab Billing Solutions (RBS). Over the summer, they began shutting down operations and notifying their clients of their closure. Their effort to make a graceful exit wound up marred by a data…
UK: Former LV= employee in court over data leak
Emma Ann Hughes reports: Two people have been charged with bribery offences following an investigation into the suspected leak of confidential data by a former employee of LV to a claims management company. This is the first time by the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) officers have charged suspects with offences under…
MoDaCo acknowledges January breach impacting 879,703 accounts
So after HaveIBeenPwned started notifying users of a MoDaCo breach, and users started complaining on MoDaCo’s forum as to why they hadn’t been informed of the breach by MoDaCo and would MoDaCo please delete their accounts, MoDaCo issued the following statement: Earlier today a number of users contacted us to inform us that data breach tracking…
The Breach That Supposedly Isn’t a Breach
Discussing an incident disclosed by Troy Hunt this week, Jeremy Kirk reports: The handling of a recent data breach – the details of which are still unfolding – by Oakland, Calif.-based web services company Regpack provides a look into how the discovery and disclosure of a breach can turn into a real train wreck. Read…
China hackers swipe millions in data breach
Jon Marino reports: A big Wall Street technology firm is being sued after allegedly falling for a run-of-the-mill email scam and wiring client funds to hackers. SS&C Technologies, a $6 billion market capitalization company that bills itself as “the most comprehensive powerhouse of software technology in the financial services industry,” was duped by China-based hackers…