Elizabeth Weise reports: Was a hack attack behind two separate instances of Navy ships colliding with commercial vessels in the past two months? Experts say it’s highly unlikely, but not impossible — and the Navy is investigating. Rumors on Twitter and in computer security circles have been swirling about the possibility that cyber attacks or jamming were involved in…
Category: Breach Incidents
Oceanside investigating possible data theft on bill-paying website
Pam Kragen reports: The city of Oceanside has shut down its online bill-paying system for utility customers while it investigates a possible data breach of customers’ account and credit card information. Twenty-five residents who recently paid their water, sewer or trash bills through the city’s online portal contacted the city on Aug. 13 to report…
Indian Bank faulted for losing customer’s net banking credentials
Vinson Kurian reports: At a time when threats to data security have taken centre-stage, a public sector bank has been faulted for ‘causing harassment’ to a customer whose net banking credentials were compromised for no fault of his. Acting on a complaint from Balaji Srinivasan, a Hyderabad-based software engineer, the Central Information Commission (CIC) chastised…
HBO hackers obtained all of HBO’s social media logins and GIPHY credentials
A new email arrived from “Mr. Smith” yesterday. It announced that the HBO “Giphy” platform had been hacked by the same group that hacked Game of Thrones. But it was more than just the GIPHY program access that was hacked. Attached to the email from Mr. Smith was a file with HBO’s passwords for all…
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after TekLinks hacked
From their web site: On June 7, 2017, Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama (“SDG”) received notice from its cloud hosting and server management provider, TekLinks, Inc., of a security breach at its Birmingham facility that hosts our server. We immediately initiated an investigation and learned that external hackers had gained access to our server…