Alexander Quon reports: The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is in the process of notifying nearly 3,000 people about a potential privacy breach involving personal health information, the organization announced on Monday. The health authority says the breach was detected by its IT team on May 13, 2019, after an employee’s email account was compromised…
CBP says traveler and license plate images were stolen in data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has involved the photos of passengers traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were obtained from a subcontractor’s network through a “malicious cyberattack,” a CBP spokesperson told TechCrunch. The agency first learned of the breach on May 31. “CBP…
New Extortion Scam Threatens to Ruin a Website’s Reputation
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site’s reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. We all know, or should know, about the sextortion emails people are receiving where the sender states…
Former Corp IT Director Convicted of Computer Fraud
Rachel Cohen reports on a hacking incident involving Corp-Students of Georgetown, Inc. (“The Corp.”). Former Georgetown student Justice Suh pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud for hacking The Corp’s email system. The federal government charged Suh in D.C. federal court in April 2019, and the U.S. government representative in this case recommended a…
Russian Banks Leaked Personal Data From 900k Clients
Tanya Chepkova reports: Clients from the top three Russian banks entrusted their data — including phone numbers, addresses, and IDs — to the financial institutions. Now, this sensitive information is publicly available. Databases with sensitive personal information about the clients of the top Russian banks — including Alfa Bank, the country’s largest commercial bank —…
Kingman Regional Medical Center investigating potential breach of PHI
Agata Popeda reports: Kingman Regional Medical Center reported a “security incident” on its website, which was shut down on April 8 and, after two months, still remains under construction. The hospital established that “the configuration of the website made it possible for unauthorized person(s) to view some information entered into the website by KRMC customers,”…