Rick Earle reports: An international hacking scheme started and ended in western Pennsylvania. It was one of the largest and most sophisticated hacking schemes ever devised, and a local school district ended up in the middle of the investigation. Target 11′s Rick Earle discovered that the thieves tried to make off with $990,000 from the Sharon…
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Relation Insurance Discloses Data Security Incident
The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working with certain insurance providers, and we are issuing notice of a recent event that may impact the privacy of certain personal information. To date, Relation has not received any…
PA: Rutter’s data breach impacted at least 70 Pennsylvania stores
Tom Nguyen reports: Rutter’s released a statement on their website Thursday saying numerous locations were victim to a data breach that allowed a third-party access to customers’ credit cards from Oct. 1, 2018 until May 29, 2019. At least 70 locations in Pennsylvania were compromised, one in West Virginia. You can find them here. Read more on ABC27.
Puerto Rico Loses $2.6 Million in Phishing Scam
AP reports: Puerto Rico’s government has lost more than $2.6 million by falling for an email phishing scam, a senior official said Wednesday. The finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, Rubén Rivera, said in a complaint filed with police Wednesday that the agency sent the money to a fraudulent account. Read more on…
Don’t expect a speedy trial date in the case of the alleged member of thedarkoverlord
DataBreaches.net continues to monitor the court docket in the case of Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” an alleged member of thedarkoverlord. As I’ve reported previously, Wyatt, a U.K. citizen who was extradited to the U.S. to stand trial here, is not charged with actually hacking any of the victim entities in a case filed in…
Class action lawsuit filed against Puerto Rican hospitals that sufffered ransomware attack
A potential class action lawsuit has been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that experienced a ransomware attack in February 2019. On February 15, 2019, there was a media report that the defendant hospitals in the suit — Pavia Hospital Santurce and Pavia Hospital Hato Rey — had suffered a ransomware attack that was…