In November, 2018, this site noted a breach disclosed by Huntsville Hospital involving JobScience, Inc., a vendor providing online job application services. On November 10, we reported that other entities were also affected, such as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, who had been notified in September by JobScience, and NorthBay Healthcare Corp., who were notified in October….
Category: Hack
How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Lily Hay Newman reports: In January 2018 a group of hackers, now thought to be working for the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus, attempted to steal $110 million from the Mexican commercial bank Bancomext. That effort failed. But just a few months later, a smaller yet still elaborate series of attacks allowed hackers to siphon…
Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange’s Karpeles avoids jail time in Japan
Yuri Kageyama reports: Mark Karpeles, who headed Mt. Gox, a Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange that went bankrupt after a massive hacking, was found guilty Friday of manipulating electronic data but cleared of embezzlement and breach of trust charges. The Tokyo District Court handed down a prison sentence of two years and six months, suspended for four…
Hack attack at major B.C. booze distributor leaves customers struggling with backlog
Simon Little and John Hua report: Bars, restaurants and private liquor stores around B.C. are dealing with a frustrating backlog in supplies, after hackers targeted one of the biggest links in B.C.’s booze supply chain. Ransom-seeking cybercriminals successfully breached systems at Container World, a warehousing and logistics company that supplies much of province’s specialty liquor…
MI: High school students hack system to change grades, attendance
Justine Lofton reports: Students of Orchard View Schools hacked the district’s student information system and made changes to grades and attendance, according to a statement. The breach in PowerSchool appears to be isolated to Orchard View High School, Superintendent Jim Nielsen said on Wednesday, March 13. […] Parents of the “very small” group of students…
Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [NASDAQ: SZMK] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an individual who’s been known…