It turned out to be no huge deal (thankfully), but after an announcement on Twitter by @Compl3x1ty of a login dump involving a medical group’s site, DataBreaches.net attempted to contact the Lutheran Health Network to alert them that data from the St. Joseph Medical Group had been accessed and dumped. The data dump indicated that an SQL injection had…
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Congress to banks: Admit you’ve been hacked!
Jose Pagliery reports: Banks have lost so much consumer information to hackers this year that two members of Congress are asking them to come clean with the extent of the damage. Tuesday morning, 16 financial institutions will receive letters from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings asking them to admit that they have…
Sony files Motion to Dismiss class-action; argues no ID theft = no standing
Josh Dickey reports: No one has been the victim of identity theft in the five months since the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment exposed reams of sensitive data, so a class-action lawsuit should be dismissed, the studio argues in court documents acquired Friday by Mashable. Read more on Mashable.
Defense Secretary reveals Russian hack of department’s networks
Ian Duncan reports: Russian hackers infiltrated the Department of Defense‘s unclassified network earlier this year, Secretary Ashton B. Carter said in a speech at Stanford University Thursday. The attack has not previously been reported. Carter said attackers discovered a vulnerability in an older network that hadn’t been repaired. An elite Defense Department team identified the break-in and began looking for…
Hack breaches Taipei government computers
Abraham Gerber reports that the hacking of computers in the Taipei Mayor’s office may be more extensive that originally noted on this site a few weeks ago when only one computer had reportedly been compromised by malware: A large amount of information was leaked in a hacking breach of city computers, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said yesterday….
WV: School system computer network attacked by botnet; Ohio County student allegedly involved
Jeff Jenkins reports: A Wheeling area high school student was recently able to invade the public education computer network and slow things down including standardized testing that was happening in some counties at the time. West Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Sterling Beane said it happened last week when the student used an…