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…
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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…
MI: Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies notified 4,082 patients after discovering malware
Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies in Michigan is notifying 4,082 patients after discovering that malware had been injected into their system in November, 2015. Here is there notification posted to their web site today: On March 19, 2016, Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies (“CCBT” or “we”) learned that CCBT’s server was accessed by unauthorized users –…
Eye Associates of Pinellas notifying 87,000 patients of Bizmatics breach (update2)
On May 5, Southeast Eye Institute, P.A. (dba Eye Associates of Pinellas) notified HHS that it was notifying 87,314 patients of an incident they coded as “hacking/IT incident.” There is no statement on their web site at this time and I can find nothing online that explains the incident. DataBreaches.net has contacted the practice requesting a statement…
117 Million LinkedIn Emails And Passwords up for sale (Updated)
Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace,” told Motherboard that the data was stolen during the LinkedIn breach of 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online, and LinkedIn never…
Patient appointment booking service notifying patients of potential breach
Zocdoc, an online booking system for dental or medical appointments, is first notifying patients almost one year after they learned programming errors enabled providers to access patient information they should not have had access to. In June, 2015, Zocdoc reportedly learned that a programming error had allowed some past or current practice staff members to access…