Katy Blakey reports that Blue Goose Cantina in McKinney has confirmed a payment card system breach that has impacted customers. In a statement to NBC5, the majority owner of Blue Goose Cantina, Jill Peterson, wrote: Last Wednesday evening we received a complaint from one of our guests that unauthorized charges had been made on his son’s…
Category: Malware
2.8 million victims squared up by malicious Minecraft apps
This seems to be Minecraft’s day to get bad press on this blog. First a forum hack gets disclosed and now Darren Pauli reports that malicious apps masquerading as Minecraft apps are causing problems for users: ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko says a whopping 2.8 million users have downloaded malicious Minecraft Android applications. Stefanko found 30…
New Wayland treasurer named after attempted computer breach
I don’t remember seeing this one before. Michael Wyner reports that Wayland, Massachusetts had a near-miss on having $4 million in town funds stolen by cybercriminals: Wayland Police began investigating the security breach on Jan. 30, and found that malware on one of the town’s computers was used to gain bank account information and codes. In…
State email system victim of apparent hack, Alabama House speaker says (UPDATED)
Erin Edgemon has this report on a developing story: The state email system has apparently been hacked, Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard said today. On the House floor, Hubbard told lawmakers not to open any email attachments for the time being. It’s unclear at this point the extent of the supposed hack. Read more on AL.com….
OH: MetroHealth reports data breach for 981 heart patients due to malware
Brie Zeltner reports: The MetroHealth System is notifying almost 1,000 patients who received heart catheterization procedures at the hospital over the past year that their protected health information may have been accessed when three computers were hacked there. The health system discovered “malware” or malicious software, on three computers in its Cardiac Cath Lab, according…
Penn State College of Engineering hacked; China suspected in at least one attack (updated)
University alerted by FBI in November 2014 18,000 whose SSN were on server being notified First attack may have occurred in September 2012 NBC reports: The engineering school at Penn State was the target of two sophisticated hacking attacks, one of which cybersecurity experts say originated in China, the university announced on Friday. While the university…