Sum Lok-kei and Elizabeth Cheung report: Patient data at Hong Kong’s public hospitals can be accessed by any user with no need for a password, a leaked video shown to the Post and verified by multiple hospital sources has revealed. Software developer Wong Ho-wa warned the program used in public accident and emergency (A&E) wards…
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Colorado Man, Operating Under The Nicknames “Penissmith” And “Botah” Indicted On Racketeering Charges Related To Darknet Marketplace AlphaBay
From DOJ: FRESNO, Calif., June 20 — An indictment was unsealed on June 20, 2019, charging Bryan Connor Herrell, 24, with conspiring to engage in a racketeer influenced corrupt organization, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott for the Eastern District of California and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced….
Desjardins hit with two class action suits after security breach
The Canadian Press reports: One day after announcing personal information on 2.9 million of its members had been illegally transferred to a third party, Mouvement Desjardins is being targeted by two class action suits. Filed Friday in Superior Court, one of the suits, filed by the law firm of Siskinds Desmeules on behalf of a…
Ex-Senate aide sentenced to 4 years in prison for data leak
Matthew Daly of AP reports: A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Jackson A. Cosko, a former computer systems administrator in the office of Sen. Maggie…
Ransomware gang hacks MSPs to deploy ransomware on customer systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the Webroot SecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on the MSPs’ customers systems. The ransomware infections were first reported today in a Reddit section dedicated to MSPs…
Bithumb Hit with Data Leak Charges, Denies Link to Hack
Tim Alper reports: South Korea’s prosecution authorities have indicted Bithumb, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, accusing the platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers. However, the company claims that the leak – which prosecutors say occurred in 2017 – and a hack worth some USD 6 million that…