Chris Larson reports: Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees has been compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents. John Karman, university director of media relations, said Friday the university confirmed that 83 employees’ W-2 forms were downloaded or accessed without authorization…
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Teen Hackers Stole $300,000 From a Travel Site and Used It to Buy a Ducati
Renaldo Gabriel reports: It was their ticket to life in the fast lane. A team of Indonesian hackers allegedly broke into the popular online ticketing site Tiket.com, stealing some Rp 4.1 billion ($308,000 USD) worth of airline tickets for the low-cost carrier Citilink. The mostly teenage hackers then sold the stolen tickets on Facebook, using…
Excellus case offers a glimpse into the dark web of private data
Steve Orr of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle has an interesting follow-up to the Excellus incident that was covered on this site in earlier posts. It seems plaintiff-members who are suing Excellus over the incident claim that their information was found up for sale on the dark web. But who’s selling it, and are the…
Highly confidential psychotherapy records from Maine center listed on the dark web
Update of April 24: On April 21, BHC reported this incident to HHS as impacting 4,229 patients. Original Post: In what may be the worst breach of 2017 so far in terms of highly sensitive and confidential patient records, a behavioral and mental health center in Maine recently learned that its patients’ records – including…
While investigating ransomware incident, ABCD Pediatrics uncovers evidence of other intrusion; more than 55,000 patients notified
ABCD Pediatrics, PA (“ABCD”) is committed to providing quality pediatric healthcare in the San Antonio area. Our mission is to provide the best care, to each patient, every time. With that being said, ABCD is writing to inform you about an incident that may have affected its patients’ protected health information. This notification is made…
Parents of accused Yahoo hacker claim son is innocent ‘scapegoat’
Jackie Dunham reports: The parents of a 22-year-old Ancaster, Ont. man charged in connection with a massive cybersecurity breach at Yahoo are speaking out in defence of their son. Akhmet and Dinara Tokbergenov say that their son, Karim Baratov, wasn’t a hacker. Instead, they say, he created websites in a “legitimate business” that paid for…