Elara Caring, a provider of home-based care, suffered a data security breach that they learned about in mid-December. Last month, they started notifying more than 100,400 patients. A notice on their web site explains that a number of corporate email accounts had been compromised — accounts that contained both employee and patient information. Elara Caring…
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TX: ProPath Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
ProPath Services, LLC in Texas has notified patients of a data security breach stemming from compromise of two employees’ email accounts. The incident occurred in 2020, but ProPath doesn’t state exactly when they first discovered the breach. In a statement on their web site, the pathology service provider explains that on January 28, they learned…
Hollywood’s Elite Private Schools Hacked
Gary Baum reports: Several top L.A. private schools’ digital servers have been breached in recent weeks, and law enforcement is investigating, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. In an apparent pattern, one or more hackers have published staff payroll documentation in email blasts riddled with racist, sexist and homophobic language. […] The institutions known to have been hacked…
Friendly fire: Four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with breaches
I’ve posted links to some other reports on this topic earlier today, but just came across Intel 471’s post. Sometimes, even criminals are on the bad end of a breach. Since the beginning of the year, Intel 471 has observed four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with a breach, including two since the beginning of March….
Report: Russian hackers exploit Lithuanian infrastructure
AP reports: Hacker groups linked to Russian intelligence conducted cyber-attacks against top Lithuanian officials and decision-makers last year and used the Baltic nation’s technology infrastructure as a base to hit targets elsewhere, a report by Lithuania’s intelligence service said Thursday. The annual national security threat assessment report claimed that, among others, the Russian cyber-espionage group…
Elite Cybercrime Forum “Maza” Breached by Unknown Attacker
Wow. From Flashpoint, yesterday: On March 3, 2021, Flashpoint detected a breach of the elite Russian cybercrime forum known as “Maza” (originally called “Mazafaka”). This breach follows recent attacks (both attempted and successful) on other Russian cybercrime forums, including the takeover of Russian-language forum Verified. Known to be in operations as far back as 2003, Maza…