Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn, and Cory Bennett report: Special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers on Friday, and accused them of hacking into the Democratic National Committee to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. The indictments, announced by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, come just days before a scheduled Monday summit in Helsinki between…
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TX: UMC Physicians offers identity protection to 18,000 patients after data breach
KCBD reports: UMC Physicians (UMCP) is notifying patients who may have been affected by a recent data breach. They are also providing patients, whose information may have been compromised, with information to safeguard against identity theft and fraud and are offering access to one year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services at no cost. According…
For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement based on multiple hacking incidents. As we reported, Yahoo! suffered two cyber-attacks in 2013 and 2014, which compromised the personal information of billions of users. Yahoo!,…
MSK Group notifying patients of data security incident
MSK Group in Tennessee, and its divisions, OrthoMemphis, Memphis Orthopaedic Group, Tabor Orthopedics, and Crosstown Back & Pain Institute, are notifying patients of a data security incident that they discovered on May 7. In a notification letter dated July 5 and signed by Kimble L. Jenkins, CEO, the orthopedic group offered those affected free services with…
MyEtherWallet Warns of [Another] Hack, Urges Hola Users to Move Funds
CCN reports: Popular Ethereum wallet interface and token wallet MyEtherWallet is – yet again – at the center of a significant security breach and has warned its users utilizing a popular VPN to move their funds. MyEtherWallet (MEW) is now reeling from its second major security compromise in under three months after claiming hackers compromised…
Another Crypto(Currency) Fail: Hackers Steal $23.5 Million from Token Service Bancor
Jeff John Roberts reports: A controversial cryptocurrency project known as Bancor—which last year raised $153 million to create a digital token exchange—hit another stumble: On Monday afternoon, the company announced hackers had raided one of its online wallets to the tune of $23.5 million. News of the robbery came hours after Bancor disclosed it had…