KPLC-TV reports that Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders announced a breach that occurred in July. From the center’s news release: Lake Charles, LA – On the morning of July 21, 2016, we detected an unauthorized intruder in one of our computers. Access to this computer was immediately shut down; subsequently, CNSD’s servers and network were taken…
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SocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource
From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Additionally, data we haven’t imported includes authentication tokens for YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for thousands of users as well as…
Seleznev’s laptop held 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers, says prosecutor
Martha Bellisle of AP reports: When U.S. federal agents arrested a Russian man in the Maldives in 2014, they found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop computer, a federal prosecutor told the jury during opening statements. That was “1.7 million people who had eaten at the wrong restaurant and their personal information…
Hackers Claim to Auction Data They Stole From NSA-Linked Spies
Andy Greenberg reports: The NSA’S elite teams of hackers have for years made it their mission to silently compromise computer systems around the globe. Now one group of anonymous hackers claims to have executed a counter-hack with none of the same discretion: They’ve brazenly announced the theft of a collection of files they say belonged to…
KY: Lawrence County Medical Practice, Employees Charged with Medicaid Fraud, Prescription Forgery
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Aug. 16, 2016) – Attorney General Andy Beshear and his Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse today announced the indictment of a Lawrence County Medical Practice and the arrest of three providers of the practice on charges related to Medicaid fraud and forgery of prescriptions, both Class D felonies. Tri-State Family Medical Center LLC,…
Athens Orthopedic Clinic incident response leaves patients in the dark and out of pocket for protection
On June 26, after learning that databases with patients’ protected health information had been put up for sale on the dark web, DataBreaches.net began investigating and trying to alert the victim entities so that they could take immediate steps to try to mitigate harm to patients. By that evening, I had sent an email to Athens Orthopedic…