Thanks to assistance from Banbreach and Huffington Post reporter Rachna Khaira in India, a leak of thousands of children’s names and grades, and their parents’ names and email addresses has finally been secured. But it really shouldn’t have been so difficult to accomplish. Back in August, I was contacted by one of a few researchers who…
Category: Breach Incidents
NC: Arrest Made in ‘Sextortion’ Scam Involving More Than 40 Women, Including UNCG Students: Police
Fox8 reports: A man was arrested by UNC-Greensboro police after a three-month “sextortion” investigation, according to the university. Kevin Kerney, 31, of Denton, is accused of pretending to be a modeling agent to solicit photos and extort social media accounts of young women. UNCG reports the man offered the women the opportunity to become a…
Ex-UBS Employee Charged With Data Theft on Trial in Switzerland
Hugo Miller reports: An ex-employee of UBS Group AG charged with stealing data on the bank’s clients and selling it to German tax authorities stands trial in Switzerland on Monday, in a case that rakes up the thorny issue of whether such leaks are the work of a whistleblower or a thief. The man, whom…
Solis Mammography notifies 500 patients and HHS after laptop theft
Their press release of December 14: Ben-Ora, Hansen & Vanesian Imaging, Ltd. d/b/a Solis Mammography (“Solis”) is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this noticeconcerns an incident that involved some of that information. On October 17, 2018, we learned that a Solis computer had been stolen from our Phoenix location…
California Department of Insurance Vulnerability Potentially Exposed Thousands of SSN and Other Personal Information
DataBreaches.net was recently contacted by an Indian cybersecurity firm, Banbreach, about a vulnerability involving the California Department of Insurance site. According to Banbreach, they notified the California Department of Insurance (CDI) that interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov was hosting an oracle reporting server that had generated more than 24,450 reports in the prior 24 hours. Most of the reports…
Dublin’s tram service website taken offline after being held to ransom
Luke Irwin reports: Luas, Dublin’s tram service, has taken its website offline after a criminal hacker hijacked the site and left a ransom demand. The crook claims to have breached Luas’s systems and has threatened to publish its customers’ data if the organisation doesn’t pay 1 bitcoin (about €3,375) in the next five days. Read…