Richard Stradling reports: N.C. State University says it has notified 38,000 current and former students that some of their personal information may have been accessed by someone who hacked into the university’s computer system. NCSU officials say someone accessed a university email account using a “sophisticated phishing scam” and got access to a file from…
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Clinton campaign says data program accessed in cyber-attack on Democrats
Sam Thielman and Lauren Gambino report: A data program used by the campaign of the Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, was “accessed” as a part of hack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that intelligence officials believe was carried out by Russia’s intelligence services, Clinton’s campaign said on Friday. […] Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said…
Prosthetic & Orthotic Care confirms hack by TheDarkOverlord
Another one of TheDarkOverlord’s targets has issued a statement about the hack and theft of their patient information. DataBreaches.net had identified this entity and first reported on the hack on July 9. Somewhat disturbingly, and as we have seen in other cases with the same parameters, Prosthetic & Orthotic Care (P&O Care) does not appear to…
MS: Jefferson Medical Associates notifies patients of new and old breaches
Quentis Jones reports that Jefferson Medical Associates has issued a warning to a small group of their patients after a recent data breach of their systems. According to the release, on June 1 an unauthorized individual not affiliated with JMA accessed a database containing a limited history of prescriptions and other information for a small…
Russia to U.S., Trump: Sort out your own pre-election hacking scandal
Andrew Osborn and Maria Tsvetkova report: Russia told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump said was a sarcastic suggestion that Moscow should dig up Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails. Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, angered Democratic circles…
N. Korea behind Interpark’s massive customer data leak: police
Well, it was only a matter of time before we saw this, right? South Korean police said Thursday that North Korea was behind the latest hacking of a leading online shopping mall, which led to the leak of personal information of some 10 million customers. The remark came after police conducted a detailed probe into…