As this site has done in 2016 and 2017, DataBreaches.net will maintain a list of entities that disclose that they have become victims of a W-2 phishing or business email compromise (BEC) attack. For 2016, we compiled 175 incidents (although some of them didn’t become public knowledge until 2017), and for 2017, we had 204 incidents…
Category: Of Note
Coincheck hacked in ¥58 billion cryptocurrency heist, four years after Mt. Gox
Kazuaki Nagata reports: Echoing the Mt. Gox fiasco nearly four years ago, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck disclosed Friday it had been hacked and lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic about the fate of their virtual assets. If confirmed, the heist would surpass the ¥48 billion ($390…
Allscripts Hit with Class-Action Complaint After Ransomware Attack
Can’t say that I’m surprised, not after reading that practices were having to turn patients away because they couldn’t access their patient records or billing records. Rajiv Leventhal reports that a class action complaint has been filed against Allscripts: It was just last week when electronic health record (EHR) vendor Allscripts suffered a ransomware attack…
MY: Personal Data Protection Commission to probe data leak
Is this going to be the Malaysian version of “shoot the messenger?” Rajvinder Singh, Ashwin Kumar and Haikal Jalil report: Police are suspicious that last year’s massive data breach of mobile phone users and the recent data breach of over 440,000 organ donors and their next-of-kin from government hospitals and the National Transplant Resource Centre,…
Topeka healthcare company fined for failing to protect personal information
I like seeing state attorneys general take enforcement action over breaches, even if the amount of the monetary penalties is quite small, as in this case. This case may remind people who have offices or satellite offices in their homes that they can’t just leave employee or patient data lying around where anyone can see…
Paradise Papers firm tries to prevent further releases of data
Ian Health reports that Appleby, a firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers data leak, has hired a high-profile media lawyer to help block further releases of confidential client data. Health reports: Appleby have maintained that the documents were illegally hacked from their files and have since initiated legal proceedings against the BBC and…