Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics and IT company NEC Corp disclosed a security breach today that took place more than three years ago, in December 2016. The company’s admission comes after reports in Japanese media [1, 2, 3] that the company might have suffered a security breach but decided to keep it quiet. Read more on ZDNet.
Lawrenceville Internal Medicine Associates notifies patients of email gaffe that exposed patient email addresses
Sometimes, reports submitted to HHS do not show up on their breach tool for a few weeks. A breach report submitted January 2 by Lawrenceville Internal Medicine Associates of NJ caught my eye today. The incident, coded as unauthorized access/disclosure of protected health information in email, reportedly impacted 8,031 patients. The following is a notice…
AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty
Sergiu Gatlan reports an update on the case against Bryan Connor Herrell, who was indicted in 2019. Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay. Before AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement in July 2017, Herrell was a marketplace…
Trello exposed! Search turns up huge trove of private data
John E. Dunn reports: Hands up who’s used the increasingly popular online collaboration platform Trello? Trello is great for organising to-do lists and for coordinating team tasks. But it has its downsides too. […] Our global cybersecurity operations director at Sophos, Craig Jones, has been keeping an eye on this for a couple of years, first…
Ca: Former Covenant Health employee fined for privacy breaches after accessing health records of 16 people
Anna Junker reports: A former employee for Covenant Health has been fined after pleading guilty to knowingly accessing health information contrary to the Health Information Act. On Jan. 20, Amanda Vandenberg admitted to illegally accessing health records of 16 people on 465 occasions that occurred at the Misericordia Community Hospital where she was employed as…
Hackers infiltrated a big Facebook data partner to launch scams
Alfred Ng reports: When hackers take over your account on Facebook, it could mean you see suspicious posts about deals on Ray-Ban sunglasses, which are definitely bogus content. But when hackers take over a single account belonging to one of Facebook’s biggest data partners, it means a widespread campaign that could lead to thousands of dollars lost and…