Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop…
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Joint Base Charleston notifies airmen of possible breach of personal information
Harve Jacobs reports: A mistake made at a medical clinic caused a potential breach of personal information of current and former airmen at Joint Base Charleston. The base says folders of paper records were improperly created at a base clinic. A former airman says he received a letter from the 628th medical group mentioning a “potential…
Jury Convicts Anonymous Hacker Who DDoSed Children’s Hospital, Later Got Lost at Sea
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Anonymous hacker collective was found guilty this week in a trial for a series of cyber-attacks the man had conducted in 2014, including some aimed at children’s hospitals. The hacker —Martin Gottesfeld, 32, of Sommerville, Massachusetts— was one of the main driving forces behind the #OpJustina Anonymous campaign….
Department of Human Services Alerts HHS and Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error
If you are like me, you might not realize from their original headline, “Department of Human Services Alerts Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error” that they’re talking about a breach involving PHI. I just figured North was pointing South for a while or something like that…. Anyway, here is the notice that explains their recent report…
BitPaymer Ransomware Infection Forces Alaskan Town to Use Typewriters for a Week
Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Monday, officials from Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su), a borough part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, said they are still recovering from a ransomware infection that took place last week, on July 24. The ransomware infection crippled the Borough’s government networks and has led to the IT staff shutting down a large swath…
Yale University notifying 119,000 that hackers stole their Social Security numbers and details in 2008-2009
Between April, 2008, and January, 2009, hackers accessed and exfiltrated data on 119,000 individual affiliated with the university. The hacked data included the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, date of birth (in most cases), and e-mail addresses and physical addresses in some cases. Not knowing about the hack at the time, Yale did nothing. And…