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Taipei mayor’s office computer hacked by Chinese hacker: official

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Dissent

CNA reports: The computer on the desk of Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s secretary was hacked recently and investigators have traced the perpetrator to China, a Taipei city government official said Tuesday. Lee Wei-bin, the city’s information technology commissioner, told the City Council that a hacker installed a Trojan malware program into the secretary’s computer in…

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Homebridge (formerly IHSS) notifies home service providers of data compromise and possible misuse of their information

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Dissent

In May 2012, California’s Dept of Social Services notified over 700,000 In-Home Supportive Services providers and recipients that their payroll data, including Social Security numbers, had been lost in the mail. In December 2012, 14,000 In-Home Supportive Services were notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, had been exposed on the Internet. Now Homebridge (formerly…

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More police departments acknowledge paying ransom to unlock their systems

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Dissent

And yet more police departments pay ransom to unlock their systems. WCSH in Maine reports: Lincoln County Sheriff Todd Brackett said four towns and the county have a special computer network to share files and records. Someone accidentally downloaded a virus, called “megacode”, that put an encryption code on all the computer data. The Sheriff…

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White Lodging confirms another long-running payment card “suspected breach”

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Dissent

White Lodging, an independent hotel management company, continues to struggle to really secure customer card data. Since January 2014, when Brian Krebs reported that White Lodging card data had been compromised for most of 2013, White Lodging has attempted to harden its security. In February 2014, the firm confirmed the suspected breach of point of sales…

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OK: EyeCare of Bartlesville notifies patients after hard drive locked by malware

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Dissent

EyeCare of Bartlesville in Oklahoma  reported a breach to HHS on March 13 that appeared on HHS’s public breach tool on March 19. There was no notice on their web site that I could find at that time. Nor could I locate any  public notices via a Google search.  The incident was coded on HHS’s breach tool as a…

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Tewskbury Police Pay Ransom After CryptoLocker Lockup

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Dissent

Jayne W. Miller reports that when Tewksbury Police discovered that the department’s network had been locked up by CryptoLocker last December, the town decided to pay the $500 bitcoin ransom. Of course, that’s exactly what experts recommend folks NOT do, as it only encourages more attacks on others, but hey, this is the same town that just…

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