Beverley Head reports: Hackers are targeting the Australian health sector, with fully populated digital health records sold on the black market for up to A$1,000 each. Plans to make the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) an opt-out – rather than the current opt-in regime – could significantly expand the range of targets for health hackers….
Category: Of Note
T-Mobile customers affected by the Experian breach can sign up with CSID for identity protection services
If you are a T-Mobile customer whose data was caught up in the Experian breach, there is now an alternative to the two-year offer of Experian’s ProtectMyID service. T-Mobile has made arrangements with CSID as an alternative. You can read the details and sign up at https://www.csid.com/t-mobile/ . Thanks to Steve Ragan for sharing that info with me….
No, the Experian hack did NOT go on for over two years: it happened last month
In reading a lot of the coverage of Experian’s breach affecting those who applied for T-Mobile USA accounts, I noticed that some journalists and others seemed to interpret Experian’s statement as indicating that the data were hacked/accessed over a two-year period (from September 2013 to September 2015). As I noted to a commenter earlier today,…
Scottrade Breach Hits 4.6 Million Customers (Updated)
Brian Krebs reports: Welcome to Day 2 of Cybersecurity (Breach) Awareness Month! Today’s awareness lesson is brought to you by retail brokerage firm Scottrade Inc., which just disclosed a breach involving contact information and possibly Social Security numbers on 4.6 million customers. In an email sent today to customers, St. Louis-based Scottrade said it recently heard…
The complaint to FTC about Experian that accomplished… what?
Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my frustration about this latest incident, @emptywheel suggested I post the complaint I filed with the FTC about Experian in 2012. After some thought, I’ve decided…
Experian’s servers hacked; 15 million T-Mobile USA customers affected (UPDATED)
There’s been another data breach involving Experian, it seems, although this one didn’t involve their credit reporting database. Instead, it involved data Experian houses for T-Mobile USA. In a letter to affected T-Mobile USA customers, Experian CEO Craig Boundy writes: I am writing to let you know of an incident that occurred involving T‐Mobile USA data housed…