Sergiu Gatlan reports: Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. “We determined that between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third party actor accessed the last four digits of the credit card used to make automatic payments…
Category: U.S.
Feds: Ex Louisville Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech To Help Hack Sexually Explicit Photos From Women
Josh Wood reports: A former Louisville Metro Police Department officer used law enforcement technology as part of a scheme that involved hacking the Snapchat accounts of young women and using sexually explicit photos and videos they had taken to extort them, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed on Tuesday. According to a sentencing memorandum,…
Phishing incident may have exposed Seton patient names, clinical information
Jack Dowling reports: A vendor associated with Seton Medical Center in Harker Heights was recently the victim of a phishing incident, according to a news release from the hospital late Friday afternoon. According to the center, an unauthorized agent accessed the email accounts of two of the vendor’s employees. Read more at KDH News.
New Mexico’s Cybersecurity Office Investigating Unauthorized Access To Information Systems At State Agency
The Department of Information Technology’s (DoIT) Cybersecurity office is investigating unauthorized access at the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department (RLD). The state continues to investigate the situation, but is confident that any unauthorized access has been isolated and mitigated. Read more at Los Alamos Daily Post.
A cyber attack breached some Latter-day Saint member data.
Tad Walch reports: A suspected state-sponsored cyberattack on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in March successfully obtained the personal data of some church members, employees and contractors, but law enforcement authorities believe the risk to individuals is low, the church said in a release Thursday. The breach did not include banking information…
Retirement plan participants urge judge not to dismiss Horizon Actuarial Services data breach class action
Abraham Jewett reports that a group of Horizon Actuarial Services retirement plan participants are trying to save their proposed class action lawsuit from dismissal by a judge. The litigation stems from a ransomware incident in November 2021. The proposed class of more than 2 million Horizon retirement plan participants argue that the data breach was…