So the Congressional report on Equifax’s massive 2017 databreach was released. The title gives you a clue as to what you can expect to read in it: HOW EQUIFAX NEGLECTED CYBERSECURITY AND SUFFERED A DEVASTATING DATA BREACH STAFF REPORT PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE The report is 71 pages, and the following is…
Category: Hack
Almost $500,000 swiped in city of Tallahassee payroll hack
Karl Etters reports: Almost half a million dollars was diverted out of the city of Tallahassee’s employee payroll Wednesday after a suspected foreign cyber-attack of its human resources management application. Hackers attempt every day to breach the city’s security, officials say, but this week’s operation netted about $498,000. Read more on Tallahassee Democrat.
Is a third-party incident about to fuel a health insurance fraud ring?
Despite the fact that we are constantly bombarded with reports of breaches, there are even more breaches that seem to escape media coverage. I’ve been wondering about whether something I noticed recently might be something that will be used to fuel an insurance fraud operation. My curiosity was triggered when I read a notification from…
Health data breaches due to external actors continue to predominate recently.
Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…
“Team_Orangeworm” issues new threats to CarePartners
Hackers who claimed to have stolen all of a Canadian home healthcare agency’s patient and employee data have issued a deadline and new threat to their victim: either pay us or we will start contacting your patients and giving data to the Ontario privacy commissioner’s office. And to prove their claim that they have sensitive…
Ninth Circuit Upholds 27-Year Sentence for Russian Hacker
Nathan Solis reports: A Ninth Circuit panel upheld the 27-year prison sentence of a Russian computer hacker who was extradited to the United States while on vacation with his family in the Maldives to face charges he stole credit card numbers and millions of dollars. Roman Seleznev claimed the U.S. government kidnapped him when he…