Narinda Purber reports: A 28 year-old Chicago man has pleaded guilty to using phishing scams to illegally access more than 300 iCloud and Gmail accounts, around 30 of which belonged to celebrities. The high profile iCloud data breach, which was dubbed ‘celebgate’, resulted in the leak of nude photographs in 2014. However, it is important to note that the defendant…
Category: Malware
CO: Allergy clinic finds signs of ransomware, notifies patients
Jennie Trejo reports: Allergy, Asthma & Immunology of the Rockies, P.C. (AAIR), a full-service allergy clinic, found evidence of ransomware on its computer systems on May 16. […] Kari Hershey, an attorney for AAIR, said the disturbance was first noticed when they had trouble accessing a few of the documents. […] “They weren’t able to…
CUNA Joins Wendy’s Breach Suit
Roy Urrico reports: The Michigan Credit Union League, its members and CUNA are advocating for stronger merchants and card network accountability after a Wendy’s restaurants breach forced several credit unions to cover associated costs. According to CUNA, industry sources estimated the fraudulent charges have been even larger than in other recent data breaches such as…
Noodles and Company confirms payment card breach
Brian Krebs first broke the story in May that casual food chain Noodles and Company had likely had a payment card breach. Now the company has confirmed it: Press Release Noodles & Company Provides Notice of Data Security Incident Broomfield, Colorado, June 28, 2016 – Noodles & Company (NASDAQ: NDLS) today announced that a recent data security…
264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling
What data security incident currently holds the undesirable status of 2016’s largest incident involving patient data that has been reported to HHS?* There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about it because the company has remained publicly mute. San Jose-based Bizmatics, Inc. designs and markets electronic health record and electronic medical records practice management software…
Hard Rock Las Vegas Reports Card Data Breach
Dow Jones Business News reports: The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas said Monday that customer payment-card data was accessed after malware was placed on the resort’s payment-card system, becoming the latest hotel to report such a breach. The company said the card-scraping malware identified data including cardholder name, card number, expiration date…