Aditya Anand writes: This is a follow up article to the previous piece that I wrote – How I hacked into a college’s website to obtain the student’s database. Refer to my last hack – How I hacked into a college’s website! …. What was different than the last time? The last time I tried to hack…
Category: Hack
Australian tech unicorn Canva suffers security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach, according to the hacker, who tipped off ZDNet. Responsible for the breach is a hacker going online as GnosticPlayers. The hacker is…
Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
Paul Kunert reports: The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams. The company, one of Europe’s largest resellers, counts some of the biggest names in financial services among its corporate client base, and sells to a raft of local…
Shubert Organization Suffers Data Breach
Marc Hershberg reports: Someone snuck into the Shubert Organization. According to a letter mailed to certain customers, Shubert executives came across some suspicious activity on an employee’s email account last February, and teamed up with some forensic experts to investigate what was happening. The probe found that someone had gained access to several employee’s email…
Medical Informatics Engineering Agrees to Pay $100,000 and to Implement Corrective Action Plan to Settle 2015 HIPAA Breach
From HHS, an update on the Medical Informatics Engineering breach of 2015 that resulted in a multi-state lawsuit (the first of its kind) in December, 2018: Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) has paid $100,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and has agreed take corrective…
Update: Georgia Tech to offer credit monitoring after data breach affecting 1.3M
Aaron Diamant reports: ATLANTA – Georgia Tech is taking steps to help people whose personal information may have been compromised during a data breach. Channel 2’s Aaron Diamant has been following this story since it broke in April, when the college said someone gained unauthorized access to a web application, affecting nearly 1.3 million people, including “some current…