NRC.nl reports (translated): The website of the Amsterdam housing corporation Stadgenoot has recently been hacked. Private data was stolen from a maximum of 30,000 people who shared their data with the corporation. Stadgenoot informed the victims by email on Wednesday. According to a spokesperson, names, addresses, e-mail addresses and in some cases license plate numbers and indications…
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OH: Fisher-Titus Medical Center notified patients; employee email account accessed last year
Brandon Addeo reports: The personal information of patients at Fisher-Titus Medical Center was compromised after an unknown person gained access to an employee’s email account. According to a notice from the Norwalk hospital, someone accessed an employee’s email between August 2020 and October 2020. That email account contained personal information including people’s full names, Social…
MI: Covenant HealthCare reports data breach through employee emails
Stephen Borowy reports that Covenant HealthCare has been notifying an undisclosed number of patients about a data breach that occurred last May 4 when threat actor(s) accessed two employee email accounts. According to a forensics investigation and document review, the hospital learned on Dec. 21 that the impacted email accounts were accessed on May 4….
SolarWinds hackers targeted NASA, Federal Aviation Administration networks
Zack Whittaker reports: Hackers are said to have broken into the networks of U.S. space agency NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration as part of a wider espionage campaign targeting U.S. government agencies and private companies. The two agencies were named by the Washington Post on Tuesday, hours ahead of a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing tasked with…
Ukraine says Russian hackers attacked state document system
Reuters reports: Ukraine accused an unnamed group of Russian hackers on Wednesday (Feb 24) of trying to disseminate malicious documents through a web-based system on which government documents are circulated, but did not say whether any damage was caused. Kyiv has previously accused Moscow of orchestrating large cyber attacks as part of a “hybrid war”…
Wawa Reaches Proposed $12M Settlement in Data Breach Litigation
Max Mitchell reports: Attorneys representing Wawa customers who potentially had their payment card information exposed to hackers have reached a more than $12 million settlement with the regional convenience store chain, according to court papers in Philadelphia federal court. Read more on Law.com (free sub. required).