Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. This case was the nation’s first-ever multistate lawsuit involving a HIPAA-related data breach. The lawsuit, led by Indiana, was filed in December of 2018 against…
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Hackers steal key info about home hunters from housing agency
DutchNews.nl reports: Hackers have made off with hundreds, possibly thousands, of identity card scans after breaking into the computer system of rental housing agency NederWoon. The information stolen by hackers was uploaded to the site between 2017 and 2019 by people looking for somewhere to live. The hackers now have their name, address, contact information…
How I hacked into a college’s website again!
Aditya Anand writes: This is a follow up article to the previous piece that I wrote – How I hacked into a college’s website to obtain the student’s database. Refer to my last hack – How I hacked into a college’s website! …. What was different than the last time? The last time I tried to hack…
Australian tech unicorn Canva suffers security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Canva, a Sydney-based startup that’s behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach, according to the hacker, who tipped off ZDNet. Responsible for the breach is a hacker going online as GnosticPlayers. The hacker is…
Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
Paul Kunert reports: The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams. The company, one of Europe’s largest resellers, counts some of the biggest names in financial services among its corporate client base, and sells to a raft of local…
Shubert Organization Suffers Data Breach
Marc Hershberg reports: Someone snuck into the Shubert Organization. According to a letter mailed to certain customers, Shubert executives came across some suspicious activity on an employee’s email account last February, and teamed up with some forensic experts to investigate what was happening. The probe found that someone had gained access to several employee’s email…