Jessica Guynn reports on the impact of breaches: Mental health professionals say data breaches and other cyber crimes are increasingly taking a heavy psychological toll on the millions of Americans whose personal information is plundered by fraudsters. It’s not just the nightmarish process of clearing your name and credit history or the struggle to get…
Safaricom Hits Back Accusing Petitioner Of Stealing Customer Data In The Ksh115 Trillion Lawsuit
Alvin Wanjala reports: Last year July Safaricom was sued in a class-action suit [by] Benedict Kabugi Ngungu, for mishandling customer data. According to the case file, the telco was taken to court for allegedly exposing sports betting history and biodata of 11.5million subscribers. At the time, the petitioner said that one of the company’s subscriber…
Lawsuit filed against MGM Resorts International over data breach
From the this-is-my-shocked-face department. Lucas Wright reports: A lawsuit has been filed against MGM Resorts, following the news that the company experienced a data breach last summer. Florida law group “Morgan & Morgan” says MGM failed to protect the 10 million customers’ personal information, they say was compromised. They also say the company tried to…
Bitcoin Whale Hacked, Losing $45 Million worth Of BTC And BCH To A SIM Swap Hacker
Dare Shonubi reports: Earlier today, bitcoin Whale suspected to be twitter user, @zhoujianfu took to Reddit to alert the community that both his bitcoin and bitcoin cash wallets had been hacked and funds worth millions of dollars had been stolen. During the act, bitcoin worth $15 million and bitcoin cash worth of $30 million were…
PIH sued after notifying patients of phishing attack that could have exposed their protected health information
On January 24, I posted a breach notification from PIH Health with a commentary on how long it took from the time of the phishing attack to notification of almost 200,000 potentially affected patients. There was nothing in their notification, however, that suggested that patients had actually had their protected health information stolen or misused….
Endeavor Energy Resources notifies employees and dependents after employee fell prey to phishing attack
Statement from Endeavor Energy Resources (via MRT): “Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. (“Endeavor”), an oil and gas exploration and production company, discovered on Jan. 14 that earlier that day an unauthorized party, through a phishing scam, possibly gained access to unsecured protected health information stored in the corporate, Office 365 account of an Endeavor employee. After…