Austin Manual Therapy Association recently notified HHS of a hacking incident that reportedly affected 1,750 of their patients. That incident was first reported on DataBreaches.net on October 18, after TheDarkOverlord (TDO) had publicly claimed in tweets to have hacked them. TDO’s tweets had also suggested that they had made an extortion demand on the therapy…
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21st Century Oncology settlement with HHS over 2015 data breach came with a $2.3 million price tag
There’s an update or follow-up to a breach involving 21st Century Oncology that was first reported on this site in March 2016. The breach, which they first learned of in November 2015 when federal agents contacted them, was the second breach in as many years that the entity had neither prevented nor discovered under its…
Chicago Man Charged With Hacking Company’s Servers After Termination
NBC reports: A Chicago man was charged with damaging the servers of a north suburban industrial supply company after his employment was terminated in February 2016. Edward Soybel, 34, was charged with 10 counts of intentionally damaging protection computers, one count of attempting to cause damage to protected computers and one count of attempting to…
UK: Hacker known as “‘Courvoisier” pleads guilty to hacking details of 165,000 people from sites including T-Mobile, Uber, and Groupon
Ashitha Nagesh reports: A cybercriminal has admitted hacking companies including Uber, Sainsbury’s and Groupon in order to sell users’ personal data on the dark web. Grant West, 25, got hold of the details of 165,000 customers of the online takeaway service Just Eat over a five month period, between July and December 2015. […] Appearing…
Top Security Firm Admits to MitM Security Incident
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Netherlands-based Fox-IT, one of the world’s leading IT security providers, disclosed today a security breach during which an unknown attacker carried out a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack and spied on a small number of Fox-IT customers. The incident took place on September 19 and lasted for 10 hours and 24 minutes. According to…
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty
Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed the guilty pleas of two men first identified in January 2017 by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely co-authors of Mirai, a malware strain that remotely enslaves so-called “Internet of Things” devices such as security cameras, routers, and digital video recorders for use in large scale attacks…