Walmart, who reported a breach involving pharmacy records in March, has disclosed another breach to HHS. This one, reported June 8, reportedly affected 27,393 patients. Thankfully, it does not seem to have exposed particularly sensitive information. DataBreaches.net asked Walmart for a statement describing the incident, and received the following statement: Recently, we learned that the company…
Category: U.S.
Update on Chicago employees’ retirement account breach
You may have missed it in the crush of other news this week, but I had noted that Nationwide Retirement Solutions is investigating how the retirement accounts of 91 Chicago municipal employees were breached earlier this month. Today, Karin Price Mueller of NJ.com has an update that suggests this was not a hack, but data theft to obtain…
DNC hacker slams CrowdStrike, publishes opposition memo on Donald Trump
Steve Ragan reports: A hacker claiming responsibility for the DNC hack that made headlines earlier this week has slammed the security company responsible for the incident response, and leaked several documents compromised during the incident – including a 235-page opposition memo on Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that hackers – believed to be Russian…
ISIL-Linked Hacker Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support
There’s an update to a previously reported prosecution. From the DOJ: Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkemaof the Eastern District of Virginia to providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and…
Almost 3 years after malware compromise, U. Conn notifies some of those affected
No good news ever begins this way: We are writing to inform you of a data security-related incident that may have involved your personal information. On March 9, 2015, Information Technology (IT) staff in the School of Engineering detected that malicious software, or “malware,” had been placed on a number of servers that are part…
Readers get notifications, Wednesday edition
Readers send along their notifications from two recently disclosed breaches. First, from MySpace: From: Myspace Legal Date:2016/06/14 11:41 AM (GMT-05:00) To: <redacted> Subject: Critical Information About Your Myspace Account Notice of Data Breach You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. We would like to make sure you have the facts…