A criminal complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today charging two Romanian nationals with a conspiracy to illegally access approximately 123 computers associated with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) surveillance cameras and to use those computers in connection with a scheme to distribute ransomware in January 2017. U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of…
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HHS announces $2.3 million settlement with 21st Century Oncology for violations of HIPAA
I’m not sure why HHS delayed a few weeks in announcing their settlement with 21st Century Oncology, as some of us reported the $2.3 million settlement earlier this month, but HHS has now issued a press release: Failure to protect the health records of millions of persons costs entity millions of dollars 21st Century Oncology,…
Notice of Data Incident Regarding Veyna & Forschino
(I should have remembered to anticipate press releases after 3 pm on the Friday of a big holiday weekend. Here’s another one:) On November 27, 2017, Veyna & Forschino (V&F) encountered suspicious activity on one company email account. V&F immediately began investigating the matter and contacted its local IT firm who disabled access. Further, V&F…
Amateur Hacker Behind Satori Botnet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A so-called “script kiddie” is behind the recently discovered Satori botnet that has scared security researchers because of its rapid rise to a size of hundreds of thousands of compromised devices. Researchers say that a hacker named Nexus Zeta created Satori, which is a variant of the Mirai IoT malware that was…
Nissan Canada data breach may have exposed 1.1M finance customers’ information
Katie Dangerfield reports: Nissan Canada Finance says the personal information of approximately 1.13 million customers may have been exposed due to a data breach. In a media release sent Thursday, the company said the breach involved unauthorized person(s) gaining access to the personal information of some customers that have financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada…
Lime Crime settles lawsuit over 2015 data breach
Back in February, 2015, this site noted that vegan makeup company Lime Crime had reportedly been hacked, and that some customers were voicing their displeasure over the firm’s security and lack of responsiveness when problems had been noted. Not surprisingly, then, some customers filed suit over the data breach. And also not surprisingly, neither the…