I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s worth posting so that parents can once again remind their kids about online safety. Read the full news story on this one as it provides a lot of details about the hacker convincing the victim to give him the login credentials to her account, and…
Category: Hack
Human Development Center in Duluth Notifies Patients After Email Breach
The Duluth News Tribune reports: The Human Development Center in Duluth says a data breach occurred in January, possibly exposing personal data of clients. According to HDC, during a routine review of email logs on Jan. 25, it was determined that an employee’s email account was compromised and accessed by individuals outside HDC on Jan….
Settlement in 2015 UCLA Health Data Breach Class Action
Top Class Actions reports: A $7.5 million class action settlement has been reached, resolving claims that a July 2015 data breach exposed personal information stored by the UCLA Health Network. The UCLA Health class action settlement provides $2 million to pay for unreimbursed loss claims and preventative measure claims. In addition, UCLA Heath has agreed…
SD: Dell Rapids Boutique Boosts Security Following Hack; Still Hears From Hacker
A popular South Dakota boutique is urging other small businesses to make sure they have a solid security firewall in place. A hacker targeted The Mason Jar in Dell Rapids just before the busy holiday shopping season last year. And the hacker is still returning to the scene of the cyber-crime. Well, why wouldn’t the…
Electronic data breach sees medical cannabis users’ personal information compromised
Shawn Logan reports: An undisclosed number of clients of a Calgary-based medical cannabis referral agency have had their personal medical information compromised in an electronic data breach, the company says. Natural Health Services Ltd., which operates Canada’s largest referral network of medical cannabis patients, informed clients last week that their personal health records had been…
Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he’s selling on a dark web marketplace. This time, the hacker has put up for sale the data of six companies, totaling 26.42 million…