Roper St. Francis posted the following notice on their web site on January 29: Roper St. Francis Healthcare values the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident that may have involved some of your information. On November 30, 2018, we learned that an unauthorized actor may have…
Russian Darknet Forum Selling Access to U.S. News Sites
M.H.n reports: Sixgill, an Israeli threat intelligence company, recently revealed that a Russian-language darknet forum has been selling access to the content management systems of a variety of news sites. According to the company, the illicit trade has been going on since October 2018. One bundle that the darknet website offered contained logins to 1,425…
‘Inherently invasive’: FBI counter-hacking operations raise red flags over privacy
Jeff Mordock reports: To catch a hacker, sometimes you have to be a hacker. But when it’s the FBI doing the hacking, civil liberties groups get worried. The agency’s revelation this week that it joined a computer botnet attack piggybacking on the malware’s signal to track its activities has raised new questions about what is…
Security firm identifies hacker behind Collection 1 leak, as Collection 2-5 become public
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The threat intel team at Recorded Future, a US-based cyber-security firm, claims to have identified the hacker who assembled and then sold a massive collection of email addresses and passwords known as Collection #1. The company’s experts believe a hacker going online by the pseudonym of “C0rpz” is the person who rigorously…
NYCUA to pursue state law on data security
Eric Reinhardt reports that the board of directors of the Albany–based New York Credit Union Association (NYCUA) has approved its 2019 state legislative priorities. And one of those priorities is data security. NYCUA says it would like to see legislation that would require all entities that handle consumer information to comply with comprehensive data-security standards…
Fallout Over Hack by N. Koreans Hits Philippines Bank
Christine Stuart reports: Bangladesh’s central bank brought a federal complaint against one of the largest banks in the Philippines on Thursday to recover $80 million that it says was stolen from North Korean hackers. At the time it was stolen from Bangladesh Bank, says lawyer John Sullivan of Yehudah Gordon, the money was being held…