Melinda Miller reports: A former call center employee admitted in Erie County Court that he stole more than $15,000 from the accounts of nine bank customers using personal information stolen through his job. Adrian Jones, 27, of Buffalo pleaded guilty before Judge Michael A. Pietruszka to two counts of grand larceny in the third degree,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hacker to Trump: Fix your security settings on Twitter
Laurie Segall reports: The same hacker who breached 500 ISIS accounts on Twitter has a message for President Trump: change your security settings ASAP. According to a man who identifies himself online as WauchulaGhost, the president, vice president, and first lady are more vulnerable to hackers because of a basic Twitter security setting they’re not…
IL: Paramedic supervisor charged with stealing drugs and identity theft
Rachel Sudduth reports: A paramedic supervisor of a medical emergency service has been charged with multiple counts of wire fraud, identity theft, and theft of controlled substances. Jason Laut, 39, was charged with six counts of wire fraud, two counts of identity theft, and 29 counts of making false statements. During Laut’s employment at MedStar…
MN: PrimeWest Health notifies members of Summit Reinsurance incident
Another entity affected by the Summit Reinsurance ransomware attack in March, 2016 is first notifying individuals of the incident. See this report about PrimeWest Health. The insurer notified HHS of the incident on December 29, reporting that 2,441 members were affected. The reinsurer’s breach was discovered on August 8, 2016, and yet affected entities are…
218,000 AlphaBay marketplace users’ private messages acquired by bug hunter
If you’re a darknet vendor who has the skills to really test the security of marketplaces where you might hawk your wares, what do you do? Well, if you’re a vendor known as “Cipher0007” on reddit, and you find problems, you try to alert the marketplace, and then go public if they don’t respond promptly. This…
CoPilot Provider Support Services notifies 220,000 of data security breach in 2015
UPDATE: As of January 24, CoPilot continues to ignore inquiries sent by this site asking for explanations of why it took so long to notify/disclose this breach. But I see a lot of commenters asking this site/me for information. I don’t have any information to share with you other than what is in the post…