Officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan., said they are anticipating a federal investigation and possible fine after an online security breach potentially compromised 8,000 patients’ financial information. The* Lawrence Journal World* reported that the hospital mailed letters alerting patients to the problem. The breach apparently occurred Sept. 20 when a company that hosts the hospital’s…
Category: Breach Incidents
NJ: Four charged with stealing identities; two were DMV employees
Two state motor vehicle clerks and two businessmen from Burlington County have been charged with stealing identities from government records and selling them for as little as $200. Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini, Jr. announced the arrests yesterday, saying the busts were the result of seven-month investigation at two New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission…
Bunch of defaced sites by @FailRooT
content/images/gallery/ryan-cleary/25-ryansbedroom.jpg @FailRooT has been on a defacing streak today which will most likely leave many administrators wondering why… And the answer to that would be do something about yur security problems before this happens and this wont happen. The sites that have been defaced so far within the last hour or so are. https://www.avivamientohoy.org/ https://www.copaamericabrasil2015.com/…
Hungarian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Marriott Computers and Attempting to Extort Employment from the Company
A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced the guilty…
Fairly big dump of accounts from globeclassroom.ca
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education has had one of its websites hacked and fair big amount of users information leaked online. Its not common we see many attacks come from Canadian websites so this makes me why why it was done, which is most likely due to lack of security. The leak contains usernames, emails and other personal information….
AT&T claims of hack attempt
Well over the past few days main media has been going wild over claims that it has suffer from a hack attempt on customer accounts. Now this comes as the world is watching cyber Security go from a unknown, unthought about problem to a new whole new level of trouble. If this hack is true it shows…