From Episcopal Health Services: Episcopal Health Services recently discovered an incident that may affect the security of personal information of certain current and former patients. We take this incident very seriously and the confidentiality, privacy, and security of our information is one of our highest priorities. What Happened? On September 18, 2018 Episcopal Health Services…
Category: Hack
HealthEquity, Inc. notifying 190,000 after two employee email accounts were hacked
Reading a notification that employee email accounts were hacked and customer or patient information may have been accessed is nothing particularly unusual these days. What is a bit surprising, however, is when a breached entity offers those affected five years worth of credit monitoring, remediation, and other services. And that’s exactly what HealthEquity, Inc. is doing….
NJ: Here, let me help you withdraw from all those pesky courses.
Andrew Kinney reports on a hack at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. Registration at Stevens is like high school sports. It involves waking up at seven in the morning to repeat mindless drills (furiously clicking through Web Self Services). It works with a class hierarchy — juniors trump sophomores who trump freshmen, with seniors…
Children’s charity Kars4Kids leaks info on 21,000 donors
Bob Diachenko of HackenProof.com reports: Kars4Kids is a charity that asks people to donate their cars, motorcycles, RVs, and real estate. They are most known for their nationwide advertising using their hypnotic theme song where a child and a Johny Cash impersonator sing the phone number and invites people to donate their cars today. On…
Romanian hacker “Guccifer” extradited to U.S. to finish prison sentence: Reports
Andrew Blake reports: Marcel Lehel Lazar, a prolific computer hacker known as “Guccifer,” has been extradited to the United States to finish serving a prison sentence related to a cybercrime spree credited with exposing Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account while secretary of state, outlets in his native Romania reported Monday. Romania’s Alba…
UK: Six month prison sentence for motor industry employee in first ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A motor industry employee has been sentenced to six months in prison in the first prosecution to be brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under legislation which carries a potential prison sentence. Mustafa Kasim, who worked for accident repair firm Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS), accessed thousands of customer…