Ah, I knew we’d start seeing a lot more of these phishing for W-2 scams. Earlier today, it was a district in Tennessee. Now I learn that eight districts in Missouri that were hit, although it’s not yet clear whether it was the same phishing email/criminals or not. This scammer had files sent to a…
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Covenant – Saginaw fires employee who improperly accessed 6,000 patients’ records
Brianna Owczarzak & Kate Nadolski report that an employee who improperly accessed thousands of patients’ files was fired after the Covenant in Saginaw detected the improper access through an audit: The hospital sent letters to more than 6,000 individuals who may have been affected. One of those people is Gabriella Economous. “I received a letter from…
Ex-Goldman Sachs computer programmer busted again for stealing code
Barbara Ross reports: A computer programmer who copied Goldman Sachs’ confidential recipe for making money in high frequency trades is guilty — again — of theft, an appellate court ruled Tuesday. The judges said a lower court judge was wrong to toss Sergey Aleynikov‘s conviction in 2015 of unlawfully using secret scientific material, a low level…
TN: Tipton County Schools employee falls for phish, emails employees’ W-2 data to criminal
Lisa DeLancey reports: A digital security breech (sic) has potentially put the Social Security numbers of Tipton County’s largest employer in the hands of those with malicious intent. Tipton County Director of Schools Dr. William “Buddy” Bibb says the system’s employee records were obtained by an unauthorized third party and sent a letter home with…
Russians suspected of hacking Wisconsin Dems
From the I-just-report-’em-I-don’t-necessarily-believe-them dept. Paul Srubas reports: County websites of the Democratic Party in the area have been under attack, at least one apparently by Russian hackers, an officer of the party said. What appears to have been Russian hackers compromised the website of the 8th Congressional District Democratic Party as well as the sites of…
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…