“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week by announcing their hack of HBO, released more files and more evidence of how thoroughly they may have ransacked some…
Category: Breach Incidents
Protenus Mid-Year Breach Barometer report on health data breaches is out
Protenus, in collaboration with DataBreaches.net, has released its Breach Barometer Mid-Year Review of breaches involving health data. You can access their free report here (pdf). Heather Landi of Healthcare Informatics also has a good write-up of the webinar we held this week to discuss the report. I’ll have more to say on the report –…
“HBO is Falling” leak site disappears?
So after grabbing headlines with their announcement that they had hacked HBO, “Mr. Smith” and those behind the attack haven’t responded to follow-up inquiries from this site and the leak site they had created appears to be down. Claiming to have acquired 1.5 T of HBO data and property, the hackers claimed to have acquired…
No Harm, No Lawsuit: Court Dismisses VTech Litigation
In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids….
Health data breaches in 2017: The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year? Join us for webinar!
By now, you’ve probably read at least a few reports on mid-year figures for breaches that suggest that 2017 is worse than 2016. In collaboration with Protenus, Inc., DataBreaches.net has worked up some mid-year figures for U.S. breaches involving health/medical data. Join me and Robert Lord of Protenus on Wednesday, August 2 at 1 pm,…
Huge Swedish Data Leak Punished With (Only?) Half a Month’s Paycheck
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Swedish government has exposed sensitive details on millions of citizens in one of the biggest government screw-ups ever, and the official responsible for the whole fiasco was fined only half of her’s monthly salary, which is 70,000 Swedish krona — or around $8,500. The leak happened in September 2015, when the…