If ransomware is a cybercriminal’s friend, the new ransomware called Virobot, is their best friend – ever. Discovered just last month, Virobot is a one-stop-shop malware that uses ransomware, keylogging, and botnets – a triple threat. Traditionally, ransomware attacks enter through opened phishing emails and clicked attachments. It then it freezes computers and encrypts their…
WA: RS Medical notifies patients because an attacker potentially had access to their information
On April 7, RS Medical disclosed an incident that had the potential to compromise patient information. A copy of the notification from the Vancouver, Washington entity, obtained by DataBreaches.net, indicates that the attacker may not have been particularly interested in patient information, though: The primary purpose of the breach, as determined by internal investigation, was…
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts
Ingrid Lunden and Zack Whittaker report: … Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the…
CA: Student council presidential election hacked by candidate
AP reports: The first online election for student government at Berkeley High School became a lesson in more than democracy. Students also learned about vote fraud, hacking and digital privacy after a high school junior who was running for class president cast hundreds of fake online votes for himself. As many as 2,400 students were…
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned. The hackers breached three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Association, a coalition of different chapters…
How long should it take to issue a breach notification?
Attorney Matt Fisher writes: Notice of a new data breach is posted at least once a day. A frequent feature of many notices is the disclosure that the conduct giving rise to the breach happened months earlier, with the delay sometimes going into years in some instances. The notices typically do not provide much insight…