Steve Marroni reports: The personal information of more than 24,000 clients of the Cremation Society of Pennsylvania may have been compromised. While officials do not believe any identities have actually been stolen, the organization’s corporate headquarters notified 24,168 people about the possible breach and is offering them free identity protection and credit monitoring services, officials…
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Cybersecurity researchers find security flaws in Likud, Labor party Android apps
Shoshanna Solomon reports: Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. said Wednesday that they had found “serious security breaches” granting access to “highly sensitive personal information” in the Android phone apps of the Likud and Labor parties. “There has been much talk of impact attacks on social networks and we learn more…
The National Board of Examiners in Optometry to Pay $3.25M Settlement in Data Breach Case
There’s a significant update to some data breach litigation that was revived last June. The American Optometric Association reports: The National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) will allot $3.25 million in a cash settlement fund to compensate some 61,000 victims of an alleged data breach that gripped the profession in 2016. In a court…
UK: Hampshire’s Police Federation comes under cyber attack from hackers
Tom Morton reports: The Police Federation of England and Wales has been hit by a second cyber attack. The organisation, which represents nearly 120,000 officers, said the ‘multi-pronged, sustained’ attack came at about 2.45pm on Thursday. It affected a number of databases as well as the advice website set up to deal with the first attack on March 9. Read more on The…
Ballard NW Senior Center attacked by ransomware ahead of annual fundraiser
DeeDee Sun reports: The Ballard Northwest Senior Center found itself in the bull’s-eye of ransomware attack, with its server wiped just weeks before their biggest fundraiser of the year. The senior center says it doesn’t know if it was targeted, or if the ransomware attack hit them at random, but now it’s struggling to get…
Cyberattacker demands ransom from Northern Colorado utility
Pat Ferrier reports: When employees of the Fort Collins Loveland Water District and South Fort Collins Sanitation District got to work the morning of Feb. 11, they were locked out of technical and engineering data and drawings stored on their computers. The districts had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, the second in two years, General Manager…