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Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Dissent

Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…

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Elmcroft Senior Living notifies residents and family members of hack

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Dissent

Elmcroft Senior Living is notifying an unspecified number of residents of a hacking incident that occurred on May 10 and that was discovered on May 12. According to a template of their notification letter submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, the May 10 hack included files containing personal information about residents or their family…

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Feds say they caught ‘Vigilance’ hacker who broke into several state databases

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Dissent

Chao Xiong reports: A young hacker reeling from the Philando Castile case and the acquittal of the officer who killed him broke into several state databases last year and boasted about his exploits. “An innocent man is dead, while a guilty man is free,” the hacker, known as “Vigilance” tweeted in part last year. The…

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Information on potential data breach at PageUp may affect Australia Post

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Dissent

June 5 – Australia Post is managing an issue following advice from PageUp, a third party supplier that has helped us process external job applications since October 2016, that they’ve experienced a system breach. We are among a number of large organisations who have been using PageUp. PageUp has provided more information here: https://www.pageuppeople.com/unauthorised-activity-on-it-system/ At this…

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Morinaga Milk customer data stolen after website hacking

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Dissent

JiJi Press reports: Morinaga Milk Industry Co. said Monday that personal data on up to 92,822 customers may have been stolen as its health food shopping website was hacked. Announcing the results of an external investigation of the unauthorized access case, the major Japanese dairy products maker said that credit card information belonging to up…

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MI: Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center notifies 42,200 patients about 2016 hack

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Dissent

After his victim allegedly didn’t respond to his repeated demands for a “security fee,”  a hacker accuses the victim of covering up a hack for almost two years.  One of the breaches added to HHS’s public breach tool this past week is a breach reported by Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center in Michigan. The…

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