By the end of 2016, a number of journalists and/or their employers had made an ethical decision not to report on hacks and in-progress extortion attempts by TheDarkOverlord. But did the lack of coverage enable the criminals to expand their operations without any public attention or public pressure on law enforcement to pursue them aggressively? …
Category: U.S.
Court dismisses lawsuits over OPM data breach
The Hill reports: A District of Columbia court has dismissed two lawsuits over the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach disclosed in 2015. The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal workers union, filed the class action lawsuit against the OPM in June 2015, alleging that the breaches stemmed from gross negligence on the…
OH: Medical Mutual Provides Notice of Data Incident
Medical Mutual of Ohio (Medical Mutual) is taking action after recently discovering that an email containing personal information belonging to a portion of its Medicare Advantage members was inadvertently sent to an incorrect email address. Read more on Northwest Signal (sub. req.)
Equifax admits it had another breach 5 months before the one it disclosed
Michael Riley , Anita Sharpe , and Jordan Robertson report: Equifax Inc. learned about a major breach of its computer systems in March — almost five months before the date it has publicly disclosed, according to three people familiar with the situation. In a statement, the company said the March breach was not related to…
TheDarkOverlord v2.0: now with threats of physical violence?
You may have never heard of Flathead Valley in Montana. I’ll admit that I had never heard of it until tonight when I received a tip to go look at a post on their sheriff’s Facebook page. And that’s when I learned that Flathead County schools had not only been hacked and threatened if they didn’t…
Data breach made public, Ridgeview says it exposed some email addresses
Ridgeview Medical Center has informed some members of Ridgeview Community Network that a security breach may have affected some of their protected health information, according to a press release from Ridgeview. According to the press release, affected members were notified on Sept. 8 that their email addresses had been exposed by Ridgeview Community Network. Read…