A data breach involving a medical collection agency affected more than 200,000 patients who had used the firm’s online payment portal between September, 2018 and the beginning of March, 2019. At the end of February, Gemini Advisory analysts identified a Card Not Present (CNP) database that had been posted for sale in a dark web…
Category: Hack
Member of Sophisticated China-Based Hacking Group Indicted for Series of Computer Intrusions, Including 2015 Data Breach of Health Insurer Anthem Inc. Affecting Over 78 Million People
More than four years from hack to indictment. How many more until they actually have the alleged hackers in custody? From the U.S. Department of Justice, this press release today: A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part of an extremely sophisticated hacking group operating…
Spectrum Health Lakeland notifies patients after billing vendor breach
I’m not finding anything on their web site just yet, but Spectrum Health Lakeland has reportedly been notifying patients about a breach involving their billing provider, OS Inc. WSJM reports that the health system learned of the breach on March 8 after an OS employee’s email account containing patient information was accessed without authorization. The information…
Hackers Withdraw 7,000 Bitcoins in Binance Crypto Exchange Security Breach
Aaron Wood reports: Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by daily trade volume, has experienced a major security breach on May 7, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on May 7. Per Binance, hackers employed a variety of tactics including phishing and viruses to obtain a large number of 2FA codes and API…
Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak
Dan Goodin reports: On of the most significant events in computer security came in April 2017, when a still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers published a trove of the National Security Agency’s most coveted hacking tools. The leak and the subsequent repurposing of the exploits in the WannaCry and NotPetya worms that shut down…
Airbnb users complain of accounts being ‘hacked’ saying they’ve been charged thousands and had bookings cancelled
Helen Knapman reports: AIRBNB users are complaining that their accounts have been “hacked” with some finding holidays unknowingly booked in their name costing thousands of pounds. Others say genuine reservations made on the booking site have been cancelled leaving them with nowhere to stay. Read more on The Sun. AirBNB had not responded to the…