David Hannant reports: A disabled mother-of-two says she feels violated after personal details about her sent by her hospital were delivered to the wrong address. Cireena Read, of Northrepps, was distraught when she opened a letter from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital informing her of the error, which saw personal and medical details about…
City Of Carrollton, Texas Victimized By Cyber Attack
CBS reports that Carrollton, Texas became the victim of a cyber attack Thursday morning. Some city services have been reportedly been impacted by the attack, which was only described as a hack without other details at this time.
Click2Mail issues statement to customers, acknowledges hack (updated)
As reported first by DataBreaches.net, Click2Mail was investigating allegations that they had had a breach. They have now responded to this site’s inquiry on October 4th with a copy of the statement they are sending out to all customers today, below. Update: In a follow-up communication, Lee Garvey, President and CEO of Click2Mail, informs this…
“This is the word of honor hacker.” says the scammer who tries to extort you.
I received another one of those “I hacked your OS and will send screenshots of all the adult sites you visited, blahblahblah” emails. As I do, I checked the BTC wallet. I am always glad if I find no payments, but when I went to check the BTC wallet for this particular one, I found…
LA: Magnolia Pediatrics notifying patients after attack on IT vendor resulted in ransomware infection
Ellyn Couvillion reports: A pediatrics practice in Prairieville is working with the FBI and has notified its patients’ families of a ransomware virus that in August attacked the computer network of the information technology company that provides IT services for the clinic. Read more on The Advocate.
Breached license plate recognition provider back to work for CBP
Chris Burt reports: Perceptics, the automated license plate reader company that suffered a massive breach of data it had collected under contract to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has agreed to new security controls and will be allowed to continue working with the agency, The Washington Post reports. At the time of the data breach, an…