Michael Bertoncini writes: A company can recover damages from its former employee in connection with his hacking into its payroll system to inflate his pay, accessing its proprietary files without authorization and hijacking its website, a federal court ruled. Tyan, Inc. v. Yovan Garcia, Case No. CV 15-05443- MWF (JPRx) (C.D. Cali. May 2, 2017). The…
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Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause notifies patients after hack
Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause in New Jersey recently started notifying patients of an incident involving their electronic health records server, maintained by an unnamed third party. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Diamond’s external counsel wrote: On February 27, 2017, Diamond discovered that an unknown individual had gained access to the…
Confluence charter school servers are hacked
Kristen Taketa reports: The network servers for Confluence Charter Schools in St. Louis were hacked over the weekend, but school leadership say they have no evidence yet that student or employee data were compromised. The hacking has affected the schools’ emails, phones, student information system and payroll system, CEO Candice Carter-Oliver said in a statement…
Hackers Find Celebrities’ Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains
Nicole Perlroth reports on how hackers go after vendors and contractors to gain access to their real targets. It’s something TheDarkOverlord emphasized repeatedly in discussing their attacks with me since last year, and Perlroth provides other examples as well: In December, hackers impersonating an executive at Interscope Records, the record label owned by Universal Music Group,…
Illinois Elections Board Offers More Information on Hacking Incident
Illinois Public Radio reports: The State Board of Elections says hackers gained access to the information of 80-thousand Illinois voters — including their social security numbers and driver’s licenses. Elections officials say hackers had access to Illinois’ system for nearly three weeks before they were detected. They did get access to personal information, but officials…
TheDarkOverlord dumps 180,000 patients’ records from 3 hacks
While thousands of their followers on Twitter seem to be eagerly waiting for TheDarkOverlord (TDO) to dump more tv films or episodes of popular series, TDO went non-fiction this morning, dumping patient/medical records from some of their hacks in the healthcare sector last year. All told, almost 180,000 patients had their personal information shared with the world. Two of…