Rachel Aiello reports: The Canada Revenue Agency is locking out 800,000 users from their online accounts on Saturday, out of fear that people’s usernames and passwords have been hacked. Citing the cybersecurity risk of having this information in the hands of potentially bad actors, obtained through email phishing schemes or third party data breaches, the…
Mobile Anesthesiologists notifies patients of ePHI leak
Sometimes it takes months until I see a notification related to a leak I reported to an entity. This week, Mobile Anesthesiologists disclosed a data leak. Their notification is embedded below. The back story on this one is that in December, a researcher alerted DataBreaches.net to a leak involving what appeared to be ePHI from…
Security firm notifies 36,762 after malware attack
Since 2019, Security Industry Specialists seems to have kept a subdued profile on the Internet. Their web site, Twitter, and Facebook accounts have not been updated since 2019, and you might get the impression that their web site had been abandoned. But checking on LinkedIn, the firm is actively hiring, and they have almost 2,000…
Apple sues former MacBook product design employee for allegedly leaking to the press
Ian Sherr reports: Apple says a former product design employee stole information about hardware products, unannounced features and future plans and leaked them to a journalist, breaking the company’s nondisclosure policies and trade secrets laws. In the the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court of the Northern District of California, Apple outlined a…
Florida law firm notifies individuals of 2020 hack of employee email accounts
More than one year after it first discovered a breach, a Florida law firm is notifying people about it. While the firm’s notification suggests that it is notifying out of an abundance of caution because it cannot actually determine whose data may have been accessed — or acquired, an alternative way to look at this…
SC: Newberry County Memorial Hospital experienced ransomware attack last month
Kristen Cheatam reports: Newberry County Memorial Hospital said they’re enhancing their security measures to fight back against hackers. This comes after the hospital experienced a ransomware attack in February. The hospital said in a statement that no patient or employee information was compromised. Read more on WSPA. There does not appear to be any statement…