Ashley Stewart reports: Kirkland-based Rightside was the target of a “highly sophisticated phishing scam,” resulting in the theft of employees’ personal information, according to an email obtained by the Puget Sound Business Journal. The company notified affected employees this week, explaining that it had been the target of a cyber attack for several months and, on…
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EWTN reports security breach of 425 employees’ data
It’s been a rough patch for EWTN Global Catholic Network. Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them in their appeal of ACA’s mandate requiring employer-sponsored health plans to provide coverage for contraception, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs. The very next evening, they discovered they’d suffered a data breach involving all their U.S. employees after…
Kashmir institute under attack said no to security, total data loss feared
Sarwar Kashani reports: The authorities had in the past proposed that the sprawling Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute (JKEDI) campus, guarded by a private security agency on a strategic arterial road, be secured by police or paramilitary troopers. This was months before one of the longest gunfights in the history of Kashmir militancy began on Saturday,…
Teen hacker linked to ‘Evacuators 2K16’ released by French police
Will Stewart and Peter Allen report: A teenage computer wizard with links to bomb threats against schools all over the world has been released by police in France. Vincent Lauton, an 18-year-old who still lives with his parents, was being questioned by detectives in Paris over the bomb hoax threats which spread fear from the…
Magnolia Health Corp. notifies its employees after their data acquired by someone impersonating CEO
Magnolia Health Corporation in Tulare, California has begun sending out notification letters after someone impersonated their CEO and “using what appeared to be his email address,” obtained personal information for all active employees of the corporation and each of the facilities managed by MHC [Twin Oaks Assisted Living, Inc., Twin Oaks Rehabilitation And Nursing Center,…
91,000 Washington State Apple Health (Medicaid) clients notified of data breach (update1)
The Washington State Health Care Authority issued the following press release today: State notifies 91,000 Apple Health (Medicaid) clients of data breach by Health Care Authority employee Employment terminated for individuals involved in data breach; notifying the appropriate federal officials for further investigation and potential criminal review OLYMPIA – The Washington State Health Care Authority…