Suzanne Larosa reports: Wyze, a company that sells smart devices such as security cameras, smart plugs, smart light bulbs and smart door locks, today confirmed a server leak that exposed the details of approximately 2.4 million customers. The leak occurred after an internal database was accidentally exposed online, Wyze co-founder Dongsheng Song said in a…
160,000 Belgian Allianz Partners clients affected by data theft
Oscar Schneider reports: An Allianz Partners strongbox containing back-up copies of data related to disaster claims was stolen in the Netherlands in August, the insurance and assistance company disclosed on Friday. According to an audit and analysis of the documents concerned, the strongbox contained data on 160,000 Belgian customers who had filed claims for disasters…
Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek
Brian Krebs reports: Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customers nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand in a bid to restore operations as…
Vistaprint Logomaker files viewable due to insecure Amazon s3 bucket
Vistaprint. Everyone knows it and probably almost everyone knows somebody who has used the firm to design or print business cards, brochures, or other business-related stationery or marketing-related materials. Recently I was on Vistaprint’s site to create a new logo for ctrlbox.com. To my unpleasant surprise, I discovered that the preview of my logo displayed…
IL: Former Lurie Children’s employee wrongfully accessed patient data, hospital says
WLS reports: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is notifying some of its patients about a former employee’s access of patients’ medical records. On Nov. 15, the hospital learned that between Sept. 10, 2018 and Sept. 22, 2019, an employee accessed certain patients’ medical records without a business reason to do so,…
TX: San Antonio mental health and substance abuse services provider hit by ransomware attack
Laura Garcia reports: A cyber attack has shut down the computer network at the Center for Health Care Services, Bexar County’s largest provider of mental health and substance abuse services. CEO Jelynne LeBlanc Burley confirmed Tuesday that the company’s system was included in a larger-scale cyber attack last week that’s under investigation by federal law…