Sara Barker reports: Australian researchers have created what they are calling ‘the largest public available dataset of malicious internet activity’ of its kind. They hope it will help cybersecurity specialists predict what security threats the future could bring. CRISO’s Data61, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and Nokia Bell Labs developed the dataset, called FinalBlacklist, that…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta discloses three phishing incidents in 6 months
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has had its name cross my desk a lot this past year. And that’s not a good thing. There have been five Cancer Treatment Centers of America breach notices that have been publicly disclosed since November 2018. Three of them involved the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Atlanta,…
NE: CHI Health says ransomware incident may have exposed info of patients at Lakeside Hospital’s orthopedic clinic
Not sure how I missed this one, but I did, it seems. Note that CHI Health stands for Catholic Health Initiative. They are a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. On September 28, Jessica Wade reported: A CHI Health clinic sent letters to patients Friday informing them that their personal information may have been exposed…
McAlisters Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky’s Notice of Data Breach to Consumers
October 2, 2019 Notice of Payment Card Security Incident California residents please click here McAlister’s Deli values the relationship we have with our customers and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. We initially notified our customers on August 20, 2019 that we were investigating a payment card security incident involving some of our…
Booking site’s data breach costs hit NT$33 million
CNA reports: Several customers of online travel website Booking.com in Taiwan have been vulnerable to fraud this year because of leaks of personal information, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Sunday in a statement. A total of 228 members of Booking.com were defrauded of NT$33.62 million (US$1.09 million) in the first nine months of 2019…
Ca: ‘It just makes me sick’: Shuswap patient receives someone else’s medical records
I really do not know why people are stunned any more. There have been so many reports over the years of these mismailings or giving patients other patients’ records. Why is it still a shock? Jules Knox reports: A Shuswap woman was stunned when her husband received an envelope from Interior Health with somebody else’s medical records…