Folks — I know a lot of you may be receiving mail — some of it incorrect — about the AMCA breach, but do not call me about it. Call the party that sent you the notification or Google their name to find out more. I cannot help you. If they sent something to your…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
One Misconfig (JIRA) to Leak Them All- Including NASA and Hundreds of Fortune 500 Companies!
Avinash Jain writes: Some months back, I published an article on “Exposed JIRA server leaks NASA staff and project data” in which I was able to find NASA staff details, their username, their email ids along with their internal project details which were getting leaked by one of their tools — JIRA which is an…
Extortion Emails on the Rise: A Look at The Different Types
Lawrence Abrams reports: Since 2018, a constant stream of extortion email scams have been targeting users with fake threats designed to scare you into sending a payment in bitcoins to avoid an embarrassing leak or threat of legal action. These extortion emails are being sent through large spam botnets or through smaller campaigns undertaken by lone…
Significant spike in compromised payment cards noted in South Korea
What is going on in South Korea? Analysts at GeminiAdvisory.io are reporting a major spike in payment cards. In a report released today, they write, in part: Gemini Advisory observed 42,000 compromised South Korean-issued CP records posted for sale in the dark web in May 2019, which is generally in line with monthly additions from…
A misconfigured AWS bucket exposed personal and counseling logs of almost 300,000 Indian employees
On July 17, this site reported on a leak by a vendor, Medico, Inc., that exposed 300,000 patients’ insurance billing-related records. Today, we report on another leak – this one by another vendor – that also exposed about 300,000 records. As part of their benefits offerings, companies often offer services to their employees to help…
Healthcare Organizations, Is Your Patient Portal Secure?
Michael R. Bertoncini and Valerie Jackson of JacksonLewis write: … 2019 has seen record numbers of patient records being breached. Halfway through 2019, around 25 million patient records have been breached, eclipsing the number of patient records breached in all of 2018 by over 66%. In this environment where hackers find patient records a valuable…