Tariq Panja reports: A computer hacker who for years published the innermost secrets of the global soccer industry — revelations that have shed light on questionable behavior by some of the sport’s most influential figures and top clubs — was told on Tuesday that he would be extradited to Portugal, where he faces charges linked…
Category: Breach Incidents
PA: Thomas County School District notifies employees of online banking system breach
From their notification: March 5, 2019 The Thomas County School District values its employees and wants you to be aware of an incident that may involve your bank account information. We recently became aware of a breach of our online banking system. After discovering the issue, we immediately engaged BlueVoyant, a leading IT investigation and…
PA: Former Patient Coordinator Pleads Guilty to Wrongfully Disclosing Health Information to Cause Harm
There’s an update to an insider wrong-doing HIPAA case first reported in July, 2018. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania: PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wrongfully disclosing the health information of another individual, United States Attorney Scott W….
Update on Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane HIPAA incident affecting 400,000 patients
On February 18, 2019, Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane notified HHS of a breach impacting 400,000 patients. The incident was coded as a network/IT incident involving data on the network server. DataBreaches.net reached out to the entity for additional details concerning what we hypothesized was a ransomware attack. But despite two phone calls to the…
Million-plus Israeli websites target of ransomware hack
Jewish News Syndicate reports: A massive hacking attempt to infest more than a million Israeli websites with ransomware that would lock administrators out until they agreed to pay was thwarted over Shabbat, though many pages were defaced with “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.” The hackers attacked the Hebrew website Nagich, which is dedicated to…
Report – Dalil Data Breach: 5+ Million Users’ Data Exposed by Unsecured App
VPNMentor reports: Dalil is the biggest phone directory in Saudi Arabia. With more than 5 million downloads, Dalil is the 13th most popular communications app in the Kingdom. For context, this is where Viber and Telegram rank in the US. 96% of its users are in Saudi Arabia; the remainder are in Egypt and other…