Hacktivism is seeing a resurgence recently, in no small part fueled by the arrest of Julian Assange. #Op hashtags for the UK, Sweden, and Ecuador signal the intent of the attackers. #Anonymous #FreeAssange #OpEcuador #OpAssange #OpSweden #OpUK #OpUS @your_anon_net @LorianSynaro and @Pryzraky took #Offline UK Police website. Sweden its also our target! You will be…
Category: Breach Incidents
Did ransomware claim a victim or did two doctors just make a poor decision?
An article by William Maruca of FoxRothschild is headlined, “Ransomware Claims A Victim.” It discusses the case of Brookside ENT, whose doctors decided to shutter their practice and retire a year early after a ransomware attack that encrypted their patient data, billing information, scheduling information, and even their backups. In other words, the attacker successfully…
Over 100 Million JustDial Users’ Personal Data Found Exposed On the Internet
Remember what I said earlier today about India being a data protection mess? Here’s another example. Mohit Kumar reports: An unprotected database belonging to JustDial, India’s largest local search service, is leaking personally identifiable information of its every customer in real-time who accessed the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on…
India: Rising Cybercrime Frontier
For the past year or more, I’ve been receiving numerous tips and notifications from trusted researchers about leaks and breaches involving entities in India. While some of the incidents involve alleged miscreants, other incidents involve human error or misconfiguration situations. But as many of us have experienced and reported, when it comes to data protection…
Update on Meditab breach
On March 19, this blog linked to a TechCrunch report about an improperly secured Meditab fax server that potentially allowed fax images with patient information to be accessed from an analytics portal. The exposure had been found by SpiderSilk, a cybersecurity firm in Dubai, who estimated that 6 million images were potentially accessible. The TechCrunch…
Klaussner Furniture Notified More than 9,000 Employees and Their Dependents of a Data Security Incident Involving Health Plan Data
Another day, another press release…. ASHEBORO, N.C., April 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Klaussner Furniture Industries, Inc. (“Klaussner”) recently became aware that a data security incident that affected its operations could also have affected the personal information of certain current and former employees, as well as some of their dependents. However, after a thorough investigation…