John Cropley provides an update to earlier reports concerning the ransomware attack Christmas day on Albany International Airport. As previously reported, the attackers gained access through an attack on the airport’s provider, LogicalNet. The airport has since severed its relationship with LogicalNet. As to the ransom, Cropley repors: Myers said the airport authority paid the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Man jailed for using data breach info leaks to claim over $12 million in IRS tax refunds
Charlie Osborne reports: A St. Louis resident has been sentenced to four years behind bars for stealing the identities of US citizens to file fraudulent tax return claims, made possible through data leaked in security incidents. Babatunde Olusegun Taiwo, alongside co-conspirators including Kevin Williams, used the personal identifying information (PII) of individuals leaked due to…
CA: Enloe targeted by ransomware attack and elective procedures delayed
I missed this one when it was first published. Ashley Gardner reported on January 3: Enloe Medical Center was targeted by a ransomware attack on Tuesday that caused the hospital to reschedule some elective procedures. According to hospital officials, data stored on the hospital’s network was encrypted, preventing staff from accessing the information. Read more…
Flare Post for Twitter Support
Hello, Twitter. I am Dissent Doe, the publisher and senior journalist on this site and on PogoWasRight.org. Not only are my sites registered to me, but I registered Databreaches LLC in Delaware. So here I am. Now please ban the stalker who is now impersonating Dissent Doe on Twitter. Thank you.
CO: Aurora Water announces data breach involving Click2Gov payment system
Author: Janet Oravetz reports: Personal information of some Aurora Water customers, such as names, card numbers and expiration dates, may have been compromised through a data breach, according to the city’s water department. The department made an announcement about the security incident on Monday and said customers who used the Click2Gov payment system to make one-time…
Vistaprint Logomaker files viewable due to insecure Amazon s3 bucket
Vistaprint. Everyone knows it and probably almost everyone knows somebody who has used the firm to design or print business cards, brochures, or other business-related stationery or marketing-related materials. Recently I was on Vistaprint’s site to create a new logo for ctrlbox.com. To my unpleasant surprise, I discovered that the preview of my logo displayed…