Eduard Kovacs reports: ….. The study found that, globally, 31% of incidents led to employees being laid off. China was the country with the highest percentage of senior IT security staff being laid off as a result of a data breach. People holding a senior IT role lost their job in roughly one-third of…
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Data of almost 3,000 patients experiencing emergency symptoms exposed online by MedCall Advisors
Have you ever wished you could just pick up a phone and get an emergency room physician on the phone to advise you in an emergency? Well, it seems that you can. According to their website, North Carolina-based Medcall Advisors is a “Workers Compensation and Healthcare Solutions” provider offering a comprehensive tele-emergent care medical service…
Files With 42 Million Emails and Passwords Found On Free Hosting Service
Ionut Ilascu reports: A huge database with email addresses, passwords in clear text, and partial credit card data has been uploaded to a free, public hosting service. The operator of the sharing service sent the set to Troy Hunt, Australian security researcher and creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach index site, to…
Russian hacker pleads guilty for role in Kelihos botnet
Olivia Beavers reports: A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet, a global network of hijacked computers that he used to obtain users’ private or financial information. The Kelihos botnet harvested thousands of login credentials, spewed out a bulk of spam e-mails and…
Notorious Guccifer Hacker to Be Extradited to U.S. to Serve Jail Time, Court Rules
A Romanian court ruled Monday that a notorious hacker known as Guccifer will be extradited to the U.S. to serve a four-year and four-month jail sentence after he finishes his seven-year sentence in his home country. Guccifer, whose real name is Marcel Lazar Lehel, broke into the email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin…
Lifting the lid off cybercrime: Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Digest
Clare Ward writes: Once again, Verizon has opened the doors on the reality of a data breach with the launch of the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Digest (DBD) series, enabling businesses to read undisclosed stories from the company’s cyber-investigative vault. The Data Breach Digest series puts cybercrime in context, outlining the (anonymized) specifics of data…