Bob Shaw reports: A list of donors and patrons of the Merrill Arts Center in Woodbury has been stolen. Board president Jeriann Jevning-Jones reported the theft to the Woodbury Police, saying the theft also involved personal information of customers, sponsors and advertisers. The lists were used to raise funds for “a new area theater company…
Category: Miscellaneous
How Hackers Emptied Church Coffers with a Simple Phishing Scam
Sam Bocetta reports: The approach was simple, a combination email scam and social engineering phone call. All it took was a call to St. Ambrose Catholic Parish, claiming to be Marous Brothers Construction, a company working on a church renovation project for the past two months. But the phone call wasn’t from Marous Brothers Construction….
The University of Chicago Medicine Exposed ‘Perspective Givers’ Database With More Than A Million of Records
Another Elasticsearch misconfiguration found by SecurityDiscovery. You can read about it here.
People Inc. reports data security breach involving clients’ personal info
Harold McNeil reports: People Inc. said it was the target of a data security breach that involved protected health information of some of its current and former clients. People Inc. learned that two employees’ email accounts were breached and their emails contained personal information about clients, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information,…
After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed
Zack Whittaker reports: After disclosing a breach earlier this week, Stack Overflow has confirmed some user data was accessed. In case you missed it, the developer knowledge sharing site confirmed Thursday a breach of its systems last weekend, resulting in unauthorized access to production systems — the front-facing servers that actively power the site. The…
Singapore Red Cross website hacked; more than 4,000 blood donors’ info compromised
Digital Journal reports: The Singapore Red Cross said Thursday its website had been hacked and the personal data of more than 4,000 potential blood donors compromised in the latest cyber attack on the city-state. Singapore, one of the world’s most digitally advanced countries, has been the target of multiple high-profile hacks in recent times, including…