There’s a follow-up to a case I previously noted on this site in November, 2016. Graham Cluley reports: A 30-year-old man has sentenced to six months in prison, after he was found guilty of accessing more than 1,000 email accounts at a New York City-area university in a hunt for sexually explicit photographs and videos…
Category: Hack
E-on discloses breach that began in 2013
A customer who received this notification via e-mail sent it along to DataBreaches.net. The firm has publicly acknowledged a problem on their Twitter page: Statement on the Cyber-Attack at e-on January 25, 2018 Dear Community of e-on Users — Safeguarding your personal and financial information is one of our top priorities. In late November 2017,…
MS: Fast Response by Singing River Health System May Have Averted Major PHI Hack
OK, I’m having trouble believing a report I just read. Let’s start with the report that was understandable. On January 16, Tyler Carter reported: PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Singing River Health System’s computer systems were targeted overnight in an attempt to pilfer information from the hospital, according to Chief Operating Officer Lee Bond. The attempted cyber-attack…
Greenbay employees have bank accounts raided after unpatched server hacked
Fox11 reports a hacking incident in GreenBay, but won’t name the company: Police are investigating after a local business’s computer network was hacked and money and information were stolen. Police did not identify the business. Officers say the hackers used a known vulnerability to get into the company’s computer system. The hackers stole personal information…
Police probing Bell Canada data breach; up to 100,000 customers affected
Brent Lewin of Bloomberg reports: Police are investigating a new data breach at Bell Canada, which says hackers have illegally obtained customer information, primarily subscriber names and e-mail addresses. BCE Inc.-owned Bell confirmed Tuesday that up to 100,000 customers were affected by the hack, which comes about eight months after hackers accessed nearly 1.9 million…
Pedes Orange County notifying patients after doctor found accessing EMR without authorization
Pedes Orange County, Inc. in California shares their medical facility with another medical group that conducts surgical procedures. To coordinate, it seems that they share a scheduling tool with other medical professionals in their building. Somehow – and it’s not yet clear to me how this happened in terms of access controls – a physician…