KSAT reports: Manor Independent School District, just east of Austin, is out of $2.3 million from a phishing scam. Investigators say the phishing email was sent to multiple people at the school district and it was a single person that responded. The money was sent through three separate transactions. Read more on KSAT.
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Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers
Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon has fired a number of employees after they shared customer email address and phone numbers with a third-party “in violation of our policies.” The email to customers sent Friday afternoon, seen by TechCrunch, said an employee was “terminated” for sharing the data, and that the company is supporting law enforcement in their prosecution. Read…
A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings
Zack Whittaker reports on a problem that has been documented and headlined, but continues to grow instead of shrink: …. Greenbone found 24 million patient exams storing more than 720 million medical images in September, which first unearthed the scale of the problem as reported by ProPublica. Two months later, the number of exposed servers had increased…
Hackers demand ransom payments from patients of Florida provider
MacKenzie Garrity reports: Patients of Richard Davis, MD, have reported that they have received ransom demands from a cybercriminal who threatens to release their public information if they don’t pay the demand. Dr. Davis is the owner of The Center for Facial Restoration in Miramar, Fla. In November, he discovered that his server had been…
NY: Albany Airport falls victim to cyber attack
WNYT reports: Albany International Airport was the subject of a cyber attack on Christmas day. […] LogicalNet, the authority’s Schenectady-based computer management provider, says its own network had been targeted and breached. A virus entered the airport’s system through LogicalNet’s maintenance server and then overcame the airport’s anti-virus protection. Read more on WNYT Update: Media…
Man jailed for using data breach info leaks to claim over $12 million in IRS tax refunds
Charlie Osborne reports: A St. Louis resident has been sentenced to four years behind bars for stealing the identities of US citizens to file fraudulent tax return claims, made possible through data leaked in security incidents. Babatunde Olusegun Taiwo, alongside co-conspirators including Kevin Williams, used the personal identifying information (PII) of individuals leaked due to…