Alex Berry reports: Troops on US bases in Europe housing nuclear weapons have been using publicly accessible online flashcard apps to remember long and complex security protocols, the investigative website Bellingcat revealed on Friday. The military personnel turned to sites such as Quizlet, Chegg Prep and Cram to memorize codes, jargon and even the status of nuclear…
Iowa Law Safeguards Insurance Consumers’ Private Data
Katya Maruri reports: In a move to defend insurance consumers’ private information, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has enacted a bill to set new standards related to data security, investigations and cybersecurity events for insurance companies. The bill, known as HF 719, came about in response to several major data breaches involving large insurers that exposed and compromised the sensitive…
Hoboken Radiology reveals breach of imaging server that began in 2019
Hoboken Radiology LLC in New Jersey issued a press release yesterday about an incident that began in June, 2019. The full text of the release is below the separator. DataBreaches.net has sent an inquiry to the practice asking them who informed them in November — was it law enforcement, a vendor, a researcher, or their…
Caravus impacted by Netgain Technology breach because vendor failure to destroy legacy data
I’ve continued to add updates to a post about the Netgain Technology breach. Keep in mind that the ransomware incident occurred in November, 2020, and since January, we have seen entities disclosing the incident. But one disclosure today is somewhat frustrating to read — and not just for the delay in notification, but for the…
FL: Safeguard lapse allowed student to access and disrupt Pinellas County school computer system, police say
Walt Buteau reports: A computer system safeguard that the Pinellas County School District was paying for unknowingly lapsed this year, allowing a 17-year-old student to access and disrupt the district’s system, according to school officials. According to a St. Petersburg police arrest affidavit, the high school student allegedly broke into the district computer network March…
Update: Alexander Zhukov Convicted of Defrauding American Companies of Millions of Dollars Through Digital Advertising Scheme
There’s an update to the case against Alexander Zhukov, extradited here in 2019 from Bulgaria. Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, announced: Earlier today, Aleksandr Zhukov, a Russian national, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of four counts of a superseding indictment charging him with wire fraud…