Scott Ferguson reports: In January, hackers compromised portions of the New York state government’s computer network by taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Citrix enterprise software, according to the Wall Street Journal. While the New York State Office of Information Technology Services discovered the hacking incident on Jan. 28, officials did not disclose the breach…
Category: Hack
Account details for 4 million Quidd users shared on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Quidd, an online marketplace for trading stickers, cards, toys, and other collectibles, appears to have suffered a data breach in 2019, and the details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums. The data, of which ZDNet has obtained samples from three different sources, contains Quidd usernames,…
Saint Francis Ministries Will Be Notifying Patients of Breach
Saint Francis Ministries issued a press release on Friday. It states, in relevant part: On December 19, 2019, Saint Francis became aware of suspicious activity relating to one of its employee’s email accounts. Saint Francis took steps to secure the email account and began working with outside computer forensics specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity. On February…
A business associate’s response to a breach raises questions of timeliness
I know we’re in the middle of a pandemic, but an incident involving Avalon Health Care Management occurred before all that. And once again, I find myself scratching my head over the timeline in a notification and how Health & Human Services/Office for Civil Rights will view the timeline in terms of compliance with the…
San Francisco Intl Airport discloses data breach after hack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach after two of its websites, SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, were hacked during March 2020. According to a notice of data breach sent to all SFO Airport commission employees via an internal memo, the attackers may have gained access to the login credentials of users registered on the two…
BlackBerry Says Govt Hackers Stole World’s Sensitive Data For 10 Years
Sarthak Dogra reports: BlackBerry Ltd. has come up with a sensational report that indicates that Chinese state sponsored hackers have been stealing data from computers across the globe for almost around a decade. A major reason for this unnoticed attack is its target, Linux operating systems. Blackberry makes the claim in a new 44-page long report. It claims…