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RIT student charged in $2.5 million mobile phone hacking scheme

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Dissent

Will Cleveland reports: A Rochester Institute of Technology student is among those charged by federal indictment in connection with a scheme to gain control of cryptocurrency wallets and accounts. Reyad Gafar Abbas, 19, was one of six people charged in a 15-count indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Michigan. Three other individuals were…

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American Medical Collection Agency breach impacted 200,000 patients – Gemini Advisory

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Dissent

A data breach involving a medical collection agency affected more than 200,000 patients who had used the firm’s online payment portal between September, 2018 and the beginning of March, 2019. At the end of February, Gemini Advisory analysts identified a Card Not Present (CNP) database that had been posted for sale in a dark web…

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Member of Sophisticated China-Based Hacking Group Indicted for Series of Computer Intrusions, Including 2015 Data Breach of Health Insurer Anthem Inc. Affecting Over 78 Million People

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Dissent

More than four years from hack to indictment. How many more until they actually have the alleged hackers in custody? From the U.S. Department of Justice, this press release today: A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part of an extremely sophisticated hacking group operating…

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Spectrum Health Lakeland notifies patients after billing vendor breach

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Dissent

I’m not finding anything on their web site just yet, but Spectrum Health Lakeland has reportedly been notifying patients about a breach involving their billing provider, OS Inc.  WSJM reports that the health system learned of the breach on March 8 after an OS employee’s email account containing patient information was accessed without authorization. The information…

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Hackers Withdraw 7,000 Bitcoins in Binance Crypto Exchange Security Breach

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Dissent

Aaron Wood reports: Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by daily trade volume, has experienced a major security breach on May 7, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph on May 7. Per Binance, hackers employed a variety of tactics including phishing and viruses to obtain a large number of 2FA codes and API…

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Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: On of the most significant events in computer security came in April 2017, when a still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers published a trove of the National Security Agency’s most coveted hacking tools. The leak and the subsequent repurposing of the exploits in the WannaCry and NotPetya worms that shut down…

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