Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…
Category: Phishing
This prolific phishing gang is back with new tactics to target executives
Danny Palmer reports: A prolific cyber criminal phishing operation which built a list of 50,000 executives, CFOs and other top financial personnel has expanded its operations with a new database of additional targets. Initially uncovered by researchers at cyber security company Agari, the Business Email Compromise (BEC) group dubbed London Blue distributes phishing emails in…
Plaintiffs in Casino Rama class-action lawsuit and defendants argue in court over how big the class should be.
In November, 2016, Casino Rama in Ontario disclosed that it had been hacked. Shortly thereafter, we learned that some of that data had already been leaked online. The hackers, who signed themselves as “Anonymous Threat Agent,” wrote that the breach was “extremely simple” and that “no security systems were in place leaving the whole casino…
DePaul experienced phishing-related data breach, notified 902 health program clients (updated, corrected)
Correction of April 9, 2019: It appears that although DePaul reviewed 41,000 emails, they wound up needing to notify only 902 patients. Sarah Taddeo reports: Local housing and health provider DePaul experienced a data breach in February that exposed some clients’ sensitive information, the organization announced Friday. The incident was deemed a “phishing scam” — a hacking…
Hacker pleads guilty to accessing Apple accounts of famous athletes and rappers
Makena Kelly reports: On Wednesday, a Georgia man pleaded guilty to hacking into the Apple accounts of several famous musicians and athletes and spending thousands of dollars from the victims’ accounts. According to the Justice Department, Kwamaine Jerell Ford, 27, obtained the login credentials belonging to dozens of professional athletes, including NBA and NFL players,…
Europol Teams up with Industry Experts to Combat Phishing
Press Release From 26 March to 27 March, Europol hosted a joint meeting of the EC3 Advisory Groups on Financial Services, Internet Security and Communication Providers, gathering 70 industry representatives to discuss the cyber-threat of phishing. Over the course of two days, global financial institutions, internet security companies and telecommunications providers shared insights into how…