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Advanced Spine & Pain Center Notifies 8,362 Patients After Two Possibly Unrelated Incidents

Posted on October 14, 2017 by Dissent

So this is a bit unusual. Advanced Spine & Pain Center in San Antonio notified its patients on September 25 following two concerning events that may or may not be related. The first involved some patients receiving phone calls asking them to pay outstanding balances.  As part of investigating that incident, ASPC discovered that their server…

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T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Until last week, a bug on a T-Mobile website let hackers access personal data such as email address, a customer’s T-Mobile account number, and the phone’s IMSI, a standardized unique number that identifies subscribers. On Friday, a day after Motherboard asked T-Mobile about the issue, the company fixed the bug. The flaw,…

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Mirai Malware Attacker Extradited From Germany to UK

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Dissent

Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Admitted Mirai malware mastermind Daniel Kaye, 29, has been extradited from Germany to the United Kingdom, where he faces charges that he launched cyberattacks against two of Britain’s biggest banks. Kaye, a British national from Surrey, England, returned to Britain Wednesday in the custody of officers of the National Crime Agency…

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Instagram alerts high-profile users their data may have been accessed

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Dissent

Selena Larson reports: Instagram is alerting high-profile users that someone could have accessed their phone number and email address through a bug in its software. In an email sent to verified users on Wednesday, Instagram said that no account passwords were accessed, and the bug has been fixed. It is reminding those people to use…

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AA Password Reset Email Causes Data Breach Panic

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Dissent

This is almost a comedy of errors…. Phil Muncaster reports: British motoring association the AA caused panic among its members on Monday when it accidentally sent out a password reset email, leading many to presume incorrectly that the firm had been breached. The problem was made worse when the Automobile Association’s web infrastructure apparently buckled as…

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Police Have Arrested a Suspect in a Massive ‘Internet of Things’ Attack

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: European police suspect a 29-year-old man of keeping one million people offline. They might have found the person behind the notorious hacker known as BestBuy. At the end of last year, hackers took over hundreds of thousands of home routers using a variant of the infamous Internet of Things malware known as Mirai. Then they rented out…

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