Prestera Center for Mental Health Services in West Virginia offers behavioral health care and addictions treatment programs, including outpatient treatment and residential substance abuse treatment. They issued a press release on December 31 and posted the following on their web site: December 31, 2020 Prestera Center Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident December 31, 2020…
Category: Hack
Hezbollah-affiliated financial org hacked, information leaked
Tzvi Joffre reports: A hacker group called Spiderz claimed that it has succeeded in hacking into Hezbollah’s Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial organization and leaked details on depositors and borrowers from the lender, Lebanese media reported on Tuesday. The information leaked included account numbers, government IDs and passport information, as well as registration forms, account statements and…
Microsoft says Russians hacked its network, viewing source code
Ellen Nakashima reports: Russian government hackers engaged in a sweeping series of breaches of government and private-sector networks have been able to penetrate deeper into Microsoft’s systems than previously known, gaining access to potentially valuable source code, the tech giant said Thursday. The firm previously acknowledged that it had inadvertently downloaded a software patch used…
As 2020 draws to a close, it still takes too long to detect and notify patients of most breaches
The press release below the separator includes the kind of timeline that we often see in breach disclosures where an employee’s email account has been hacked. It continues to take many entities too long, in this blogger’s opinion, to detect breaches of their systems, then determine that PHI was involved, and then notify. In this…
Italy’s Ho-Mobile database with 2.5m accounts allegedly stolen, sold
Sudais Asif reports: What sounds like a nightmare for a company? Waking up to the news that the data of their customers is being sold online. That’s exactly what has happened to Ho-Mobile, an Italian phone service provider owned by Vodafone Italy. Apparently, the personal data of over 2.5 million Ho-Mobile’s customers is being sold…
Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Computer Systems
Ticketmaster Used Passwords Unlawfully Retained by a Former Employee of a Competitor to Access Computer Systems in Scheme to “Choke Off” the Victim’s Business Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ticketmaster L.L.C. (Ticketmaster or the Company) agreed to pay a $10 million fine to resolve charges that it repeatedly accessed without authorization the computer…