The Moscow Times reports: Personal data relating to the Russian mobile operator Beeline’s 2016 database of 8.7 million clients has been leaked, the Kommersant business daily reported citing banking security department sources. Kommersant checked the database, which list Beeline’s internet clients, and found that it includes full names, addresses and phone numbers. Read more on The Moscow…
Advocate Christ Medical Center demonstrates how NOT to respond to a HIPAA breach
Ok, we know mis-mailings and mix-ups happen, right. But what allegedly happened with Advocate Christ Medical Center is yet another example of how NOT to respond to an incident while claiming you take privacy and security seriously. CBS in Chicago reports that Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn Illinois sent Darnell Payne some other…
DCH Healthcare Systems pays hacker to end ransomware attack
Pat Duggins reports a follow-up on the DCH Hospital system ransomware incident that resulted in the hospitals turning patients away: The DCH Hospital system in west central Alabama may be accepting new patients as soon as Monday after resolving a ransomware attack. The Associated Press and the Tuscaloosa News report the three-hospital network paid a…
3,000 Kent State student emails hacked
Aidan Coyne reports: On Sept. 19 Kent State announced over 3,000 student emails had been hacked the week before. According to Robert Eckman of Kent State’s IT department, the breach was a result of credential harvesting. […] According to Eckman there were two Credential Harvesting incidents that led to this breach, one on 9/22-23 and…
Hacker shuts down Spanish city’s computer sytem and demands bitcoin ransom
AFP reports: A hacker has taken over the computer system of the southern Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera and is demanding a ransom paid in bitcoin to unlock it, local officials said Friday. The cyber attack, which has caused outages of services offered through the city’s website, began on Tuesday night, a municipal…
LA: Humana notifying some Lafayette customers of possible involvement in privacy breach
The Advocate reports: Humana is notifying about 500 Lafayette customers that their information may have been included in a former employee’s solicitations. In December, Humana terminated a sales agent for violating company policy by emailing his Humana client list to his personal email account. After he was fired, the company says they believe he shared…