Rambo Talabong reports: A still unidentified hacker has infiltrated the online student portal of San Beda University (SBU), gaining access to personal information and social media passwords of thousands of students and apparently releasing them online. “We discovered an incident where your email address and password, as used in the student portal was accessed by…
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UK: Fears patient files at Hockley GP surgery hacked – urgent probe launched
Mike Lockley reports: Thousands of alerts have been sent to patients at a leading GPs’ practice amid fears their medical records have been hacked. Staff at Hockley Medical Practice, based in the Jewellery Quarter, have acted swiftly after being made aware of the possible cyber attack. The surgery has 8,839 patients. A text message has…
ZEE5 allegedly hacked by ‘Korean hackers’, customer info at risk
Ax Sharma reports: A hacker identifying themselves as “John Wick” and “Korean Hackers” claim to have breached the systems for Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 and are threatening to sell the database on criminal markets. ZEE5 is an Indian streaming service with over 150 million subscribers worldwide and is part of the Essel Group conglomerate,…
Data Breach Lawsuit Filed Against Aveanna Healthcare
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports that Aveanna Healthcare has been sued over a July, 2019 breach that it discovered in August, 2019. The breach was disclosed in February of 2020 as potentially impacting more than 166,000 patients. The incident was one of all-too-many incidents where threat actors gained access to a number of employees’ email accounts,…
Judge Pushes Back Accused LinkedIn Hacker’s Trial One Last Time Over COVID-19 Concerns
Ross Todd reports that a federal judge in San Francisco has once again delayed the resumption of the criminal trial of Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, the Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring. Read more on Law.com.
Amtrak resets user passwords after Guest Rewards data breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) disclosed a data breach that led to the exposure of personal information of some Guest Rewards members. … “On the evening of April 16, 2020, Amtrak determined that an unknown third party gained unauthorized access to certain Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts,” Amtrak Guest Rewards Senior Director…