The events of 9/11 and theories about those events have occupied a prominent place in our culture. As someone who was there in the aftermath, as a rescuer with the Red Cross, I have enduring memories of what is was like to be just north of Ground Zero in eery silence, and to see the…
Category: Hack
Six years after massive data breach, SC still fixing security, but ends victim credit monitoring
Andy Shain reports: Six years after one of the nation’s worst data breaches, South Carolina efforts to protect computer records from hackers remain a work in progress, but that did not prevent the end of free credit report monitoring for millions of taxpayers whose information was stolen. […] No arrests have been made in the…
thedarkoverlord releases files related to 9/11 investigations and litigation; threatens to release more if companies don’t pay up
While most people in the U.K. and U.S. might have been preparing for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the hackers known as thedarkoverlord had their own plans for the evening, and their plans seemed to involve spoiling the plans of a number of corporative executives on both sides of the Atlantic. Earlier in the day, the…
MO: Choice Rehabilitation notifies patients after hack of corporate email account
The following notice from Choice Rehabilitation is dated December 18, 2018, but first appeared in STLToday on December 31, 2018: December 18, 2018 Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO notified more than 500 residents of a breach of unsecured resident health information after discovering the following event: On November 7, 2018, Choice Rehabilitation, (Choice) discovered…
Click2Gov breach in parking payment system in Canada might have exposed personal information
Shane Ross of CBC reports: Saint John has shut down its online system used to pay parking tickets after discovering a data breach that could have exposed customer names, addresses and credit card information. […] The city uses a third-party software product called Click2Gov from its service provider, CentralSquare Technologies, to provide customers with the…
Eyeware retailer Warby Parker forces password reset; notifies 198,000 customers of credential stuffing attack
Sam Woods reports: Eyewear retailer Warby Parker announced Thursday that it had suffered a cybersecurity breach that may have affected up to 198,000 customers.Hackers accessed customer usernames and passwords from unrelated cyber break-ins at other companies, according to a Warby Parker news release. The hackers then used that information to try to gain unauthorized access to client…