UCLA Health announced today it was a victim of a criminal cyber attack. While the attackers accessed parts of the computer network that contain personal and medical information, UCLA Health has no evidence at this time that the cyber attacker actually accessed or acquired any individual’s personal or medical information. UCLA Health estimates that data…
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CVS Probes Card Breach at Online Photo Unit
It’s not just Walmart Canada whose customers were affected by a breach involving third-party vendor PNI Digital Media. Brian Krebs reports that CVS was also affected.
IL: Ex-Elgin cop official pleads guilty to ID theft, gets probation
There’s an update on a case first noted on this blog in 2013. The Chicago Tribune reports: Former Elgin deputy police chief Robert Beeter pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of hacking into the email account of a fellow officer whose wife was romantically involved with Beeter. In a plea bargain with Kane County prosecutors,…
Santander reports ATM incidents at Massachusetts branches (updated)
Santander Bank seems to be having problems with ATM incidents at some of their Massachusetts branches. In each of three reported cases, the criminals attached a magnetic stripe reader on the ATM vestibule door of the branch and removed it within a day or two. Customers’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, security codes, and PIN numbers were obtained…
Alfa Specialty Insurance and Alfa Vision Insurance notify customers of personal information leak
Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…
Indiana radio station hacked by Anonymous
WIVB reports: An Indiana radio station was apparently hacked Sunday evening. If you were tuning in to WXXR 97.3 in Terre Haute, you might have heard a message from “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is an activist group that hacks websites, to express their views and messages. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the FM signal was intercepted and a…