Brian Krebs reports: Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multiple financial institutions who said they’d detected a pattern of fraudulent…
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Utah man accused of hacking United Airlines
Meredith Cunningham reports: New details have come to light regarding the 2012 incident where a hacker was able to steal travel vouchers from the United Airlines website, then turn around and sell them for a profit. Ammon Cunningham from Saratoga Springs, Utah, is believed to be the culprit. The case affidavit claims that Cunningham emailed…
Another Bizmatics, Inc. client notifies 7.500 patients of hack
Well, this is a bit different. Lafayette Pain Care, PC in Indiana notified HHS on May 9 about hacking/IT incident that affected 7,500 patients. In trying to track it down (there’s nothing that I could find on their web site), I came across a media report from May 10 that links this to the Bizmatics,…
NM: San Juan County notifying patients whose PHI were potentially viewable by hacker
KRQE reports: San Juan County is warning the public of a possible data breach in patients’ health records. Authorities say someone hacked into a county computer on Wednesday. An investigation shows no information was taken, but county officials say patients who participated in the DWI or Axis treatment programs may have had their personal information…
House lifts block on Google-hosted apps, Yahoo Mail remains blacklisted
Dustin Volz reports: The U.S. House of Representatives’ information technology team this week reinstated access on its internet network to software applications hosted on a Google cloud service after the company addressed potential security fears, according to an email seen by Reuters. Yahoo Mail remains inaccessible, however, and has been blacklisted since the House Information…
NY: Hackers hit upstate municipalities with ransomware
In the context of a ransomware story, Brian Tumulty reports: A top Justice Department official told senators at a Wednesday hearing that more than 7,600 ransomware complaints were received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center operated by the FBI between 2005 and 2015. Nearly one-third involved incidents that occurred last year alone. “Victims reported losses totaling…