Sean Gallagher reports: The city of Atlanta government has apparently become the victim of a ransomware attack. The city’s official Twitter account announced that the city government “is currently experiencing outages on various customer facing applications, including some that customers may use to pay bills or access court-related information.” According to a report from Atlanta…
Category: Of Note
Prosecution drops five felony charges against Justin Shafer, accepts plea to one misdemeanor charge
In May 2016, the Dallas FBI raided dental integrator and independent researcher Justin Shafer because of allegations that he had accessed an FTP server without authorization. Shafer was subsequently raided twice more, and in March 2017, he was arrested and charged with stalking a federal employee – not hacking or any criminal conduct related to…
AU: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software
Ben Grubb reports: A flaw in medical software used by more than 40,000 Australian health specialists and distributed by Telstra has potentially exposed Australians’ medical information to hackers, who have been logging into practitioners’ computers and servers to carry out illegal activities. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
San Diego City Attorney announces lawsuit against Experian over massive data breach
At first I thought the headline had a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…
He tried to tell you you’re leaking data. Even after you stupidly blocked him.
Today’s episode of Incident Response Fail involves a cybersecurity professional/bug bounty hunter, Mohamed Suwaiz, and a driver training company in Texas, Smith System, that seemed to stubbornly resist his efforts to alert them to a data leak. Although Suwaiz (@Msuwaiz on Twitter) describes himself as being motivated by bug bounties, when there’s no bounty to…
Here’s what you didn’t know about health data breaches in February
Protenus, Inc. has released its February Breach Barometer, with its analysis of 39 health data incidents compiled for them by this site. As I have done in companion posts to their previous reports, I am providing a list, below, of the incidents upon which their report is based. Where additional details are available, I have…