The Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center in Vancouver, Washington, recently notified the Oregon Attorney General’s Office of a breach that they discovered on September 25, 2018. Here is the text of their notification, as posted on their web site: Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center, LLC (“SWRSC”) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of…
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Altus Baytown Hospital system hit by Dharma ransomware
On November 2, Altus Baytown Hospital System posted this notice of breach: We are posting this statement on our website as a precautionary measure and as part of our commitment to patient privacy. Altus Baytown Hospital and its affiliates and related entities (collectively, “ABH”) take our patients’ privacy seriously, and it is important to…
They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up.
Benjamin Herold has a great piece on EdWeek about two teens in Michigan who have been charged criminally with hacking. It is a case that Doug Levin previously brought to the public’s attention in the context of a question as to whether schools are failing to deal effectively with young curious minds. This particular case…
IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers to send Hotmail, Outlook, and Yahoo spam
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A new botnet made up of roughly 100,000 home routers has silently grown over the past two months. According to current evidence, the botnet’s operators appear to use the infected routers to connect to webmail services and are most likely sending out massive email spam campaigns. First spotted this September by the…
Bankers Life notified more than 566,000 after hack of employees’ email resulted in breach of PHI
The following is a Bankers Life announcement of a security incident that appears on HHS’s public breach tool under the name “CNO Financial Group, Inc.” According to the report to HHS, the breach affected 566,217 members protected health information. On October 25, Bankers Life1 notified certain customers about a data security issue. We take the…
Card data of 20,000 Pakistani bank users sold on dark web: report
Dunya News reports: Echoes pertaining to the sale of Pakistani bank users’ credit and debit cards in black market continues to resonate. An international report suggests that the card data of at least 20,000 Pakistani bank users have been sold at the dark web. It includes 22 Pakistani banks and 19,864 cards. In the first…