Ray Schultz reports: Lucy Security Inc. says its Simulated Phishing template design was used in a recent data breach of Wipro, an IT outsourcing firm based in India. Hackers “downloaded and copied a simulated phishing template, as part of their attack, using their own code and servers to deliver the attacks,” states Colin Bastable, CEO…
Category: Of Note
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators
Zack Whittaker reports: The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police, which confirmed the arrests in a statement earlier in the day, Local…
Indiana sues Equifax over massive 2017 data breach
WANE reports: The state of Indiana has sued credit bureau Equifax for a 2017 data breach that left 147.9 million Americas, including 3.9 million Hoosiers, compromised. […]The state argued in its lawsuit that Equifax used cost-cutting measures like outsourcing mission-critical systems. The company failed to improve security and instead chose to increase revenue, the lawsuit…
Tennessee diagnostic medical imaging services company pays $3,000,000 to settle breach exposing over 300,000 patients’ protected health information
There’s an update to a case I’ve been following on this blog since 2014. From HHS, this announcement: Touchstone Medical Imaging (“Touchstone”) has agreed to pay $3,000,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and to adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential violations…
Finder of patient details accused by HSE of data breach
From the no-good-deed-shall-go-unpunished-until-we-find-where-we-misplaced-our-common-sense dept., Catherine Shanahan reports: A man who found sensitive patient data on a city centre street and who highlighted his concerns in the media has been accused by the HSE of a data breach. Luke Field, who found data containing patient names and details of surgical procedures on the pavement of South…
A hacker is wiping Git repositories and asking for a ransom
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hundreds of developers have had had Git source code repositories wiped and replaced with a ransom demand. The attacks started earlier today, appear to be coordinated across Git hosting services (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and it is still unclear how they are happening. What it is known is that the hacker removes all…