Compiling data for Protenus, Inc.’s breach barometer should be relatively routine and straight-forward. In May, however, it wasn’t. Here’s a rundown on the factors that complicated our analyses: Investigating patient data put up for sale on the dark web. Determining whether the breaches were legitimate or fake turned out to be headache-inducing, as the following scenarios…
Category: Of Note
Data on 198M voters exposed by RNC contractor
It’s somewhat unbelievable how this keeps happening and Congress continues to sit on its hands when it comes to voter registration data. The Russians don’t need to hack anything. They just need to look for leaky servers or buckets. Joe UChill reports: A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases…
The Nigerian Spammers From the 90s Have Moved on to Keyloggers and RATs
Catalin Cimpanu reports: … We’ll be taking a look today at a group of researchers that during the past few months have been reporting malware-infected computers to relevant authorities in countries all over the globe. This team is formed by MalwareHunter, Daniel Gallagher, and a security researcher that goes online only by the name of Guido….
Personal info of hundreds of thousands of students targeted in schools hack attack
Kyra Gurney reports: Two months before the U.S. presidential election, international hackers slipped into the computer systems of at least four Florida school district networks in the hopes of stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of students. They infected the systems with malware — malicious software — that turned off the logs recording…
NYS settles with CoPilot Provider Services over delayed breach notification to 220,000 patients
There’s a follow-up to an incident reported by DataBreaches.net in January and February involving CoPilot Provider Services. As I had reported in January, CoPilot took more than one year to notify individuals of a breach involving their web site, and would not answer any questions as to why it took so long. As I subsequently…
HospitalGown Database Leak: Enterprise Apps Found Leaking Data On Back End Servers
AJ Dellinger reports: Mobile apps for enterprise services that manage data are leaving massive troves of user information exposed and unprotected on backend servers, according to a group of security researchers. Experts at Appthority, a mobile security firm, published a report that showed 43 terabytes of data from enterprise apps left exposed. The information was…