Associated Press reports: Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. The settlement, negotiated with the Washington attorney general’s office and filed in…
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Hack Brief: A Card-Skimming Hacker Group Hit 17K Domains—and Counting
Brian Barrett reports: You may not recognize the name Magecart, but you’ve seen its impact. A set of sophisticated hacking groups, Magecart has been behind some of the bigger hacks of the past few years, from British Airways to Ticketmaster, all with the singular goal of stealing credit card numbers. Think of them as the…
Anaesthetic devices ‘vulnerable to hackers’
Chris Baraniuk reports: A type of anaesthetic machine that has been used in NHS hospitals can be hacked and controlled from afar if left accessible on a hospital computer network, a cyber-security company says. A successful attacker would be able to change the amount of anaesthetic delivered to a patient, CyberMDX said. Alarms designed to…
Hackers breached Greece’s top-level domain registrar
Catalin Cimpanu reports: State-sponsored hackers have breached ICS-Forth, the organization that manages Greece’s top-level domain country codes of .gr and .el. ICS-Forth, which stands for the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, publicly admitted to the security incident in emails it sent ot domain owners on April 19. The hackers…
Hackers Obtain Names, Social Security Numbers For 78K In Maryland
Deb Belt reports: The names and Social Security numbers of 78,000 Marylanders were accessed by hackers who breached Maryland Department of Labor databases, state officials said July 5. While customers whose personal information was accessed are just now being notified, the breach happened in April and involved data files from 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2014….
Border-surveillance subcontractor suspended after cyberattack
Breaches have consequences – sometimes. And so does copyright infringement or theft. On July 30, DataBreaches.net learned that a story it linked to on a site called darknetstats.com was not written by “C. Aliens” for darknetstats.com. As a a consequence, the original post here has been removed with an apology to C. Aliens. One other…