UPDATED May 17, 2022: This incident was reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as affecting 98,746 patients. The “501” marker submitted to HHS on February 11, 2022 has not yet been updated on HHS’s website. Another disclosure heading into the weekend, but credit to them for getting a notification within one month of discovery. …
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Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska discloses data breach
Perlugi Paganini reports: Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. Threat actors had access to sensitive personal information of the customers, including names, personal identification numbers, physical addresses, and telephone numbers. Threat actors did not access online accounts and financial information was…
HK: Harbour Plaza Hotel customers warned over data leak
RTHK reports: More than a million customers of the Harbour Plaza Hotel group are being advised to be on their guard for possible scams after its booking database came under a cyber attack. Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung said on Friday that she’s probing the data leak involving 1.2 million customers, after receiving a report from…
Canadian Hacker Bowser Sentenced To Three Years In Jail For Crimes Against Nintendo
On February 4, we learned that the government was seeking a 5-year sentence for Canadian hacker Gary Bowser, in addition to restitution, and three years supervised release following prison. Today, Bowser was sentenced to three years in prison. Kate Gray reports: Bowser’s group built and sold devices that were used to hack consoles, which can…
One year after it started, LendUs discloses that they had a breach
As you read the following press release, note that they do not tell us when they first discovered that there might have been a security breach or incident. Nor do they tell us how they first discovered it. And what’s with this “out of an abundance of caution” claim? If you can’t figure out what…
FL: Ransomware group claims to have stolen data on 260,000 patients from Jax Spine and Pain Centers; victim remains silent (UPDATED)
Update of February 24, 2022: Jacksonville Spine Center, P.A. (JAX Spine and Pain Centers) reported a hacking incident to HHS on February 10 — the same date that this site first reported on claims by Avos Locker to have acquired data on 260,000 patients. JAX never responded to this site’s inquiries, but seems to have…