Charlie Taylor reports: Irish IT services group Ergo is forecasting further growth as it reported revenues of €85.2 million last year as the company said it recently foiled a major ransomware attack. Ergo said it immediately moved to lock down servers late last Wednesday after becoming aware of a serious security incident. It was able to recover…
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NC: Data breach potentially impacts hundreds of Brunswick County Schools employees
And then there were two….. WWAY News reports: The company that administers the Flexible Spending Account plans for Brunswick County Schools had a data breach, which means hundreds of school employees may be affected. Interactive Medical Systems Corporation is the third-party company that administers the employee benefit plan. The company noticed an IMS employee’s email…
NC: Data breach exposed some Lincoln County Schools workers’ private information
WSOC-TV reports: Some Lincoln County Schools workers’ private information has been exposed in a data breach. The company that handles the district’s employee benefits plan, Interactive Medical Systems Corporation, said it was attacked in a phishing scam. Read more on WSOC-TV.
Transmit Security, Authentication Company Used by Banks, Hacked
Joseph Cox reports: This week a cybersecurity company called Transmit Security, that focuses on providing corporate clients with tools to securely log users into different services, notified customers of a data breach at the firm. The breach impacted over a thousand email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and other sensitive information, according to a researcher mentioned…
NY: Computer breach exposes Community Care Physicians patients’ info
Eric Anderson reports: A number of Community Care Physicians patients may have had their protected health information, date of birth, and insurance coverage exposed during a hack of computers at Albany-based accounting firm BST & Co. CPAs. Those affected were first notified by letter from BST on Tuesday. BST said the computer virus was active…
NC: Wake County learns that 1,900 employees affected by breach at former benefits administrator
Posted to Wake County’s website yesterday (h/t, WDTV/Yahoo) Wake County’s former flexible benefit spending accounts administrator, Interactive Medical Systems, recently reported that it experienced a data security breach that disclosed the personal information of nearly 1,900 Wake County Government employees to an unauthorized third party. “We sincerely regret any inconvenience or concern that this matter…