Washington Township Health Care District (Washington Hospital Healthcare System) recently notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach. Their template of their notification letter was uploaded yesterday. The letter, signed by Kristin Ferguson,, Chief of Compliance, explains that the District learned on October 8th that an unauthorized individual may have gained access to a computer associated with…
Category: Hack
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack–former employees
Joseph Menn reports on some poor decision-making by Microsoft that left hacking victims in the dark that their communications had been intercepted: Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but…
UConn website compromised, prompting users to download malicious program
Kyle Constable reports: The University of Connecticut’s website was compromised Sunday, prompting visitors to download a malicious program posing as Adobe Flash Player, according to a university spokesman. […] The university website’s DNS records – Internet protocols that associate the URL “uconn.edu” with the website’s server and content – were compromised around 11 a.m., Breen…
79 escort sites hacked in past week: ElSurveillance
I’ll admit I sometimes ignore data dumps or hacks if they don’t fit my particular interests in reporting on breaches that impact health data or student data. But occasionally I remind myself that all breaches that expose personal information do need to be taken seriously. Yes, even those, as with the Ashley Madison hack, where some people may feel, “Well,…
Security Breach At Quincy Credit Union Investigated
Jim Smith reports: Authorities continue to investigate a security breach at the Quincy Credit Union, a breach that gave hackers access to hundreds of accounts. It was a busy day at the credit union on Monday as customers came in to get their accounts checked, and in some cases, get new ATM and debit cards. WBZ found…
Anonymous Hacks Asia Pacific Telecommunity to Protest Against Censorship In Asia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the Anonymous hacker collective have defaced the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gained access to the site’s admin panel (running Drupal), and also managed to get their hands on a database dump. Cyberguerilla.org reported the attack yesterday and provided screen shots and a link to the data that appears to contain information on…