Donnie O’Sullivan reports: Almost 30 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and email addresses were accessed by hackers in the biggest security breach in the company’s history, Facebook said Friday. The attackers accessed even more details on 14 million of those users, including the area where they live, their relationship status, their religion, and part of…
MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords
Zack Whittaker reports: FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers without a password. The company builds fitness tracking software for gyms and group classes that displays heart rate and other fitness metric information for interactive…
$400K settlement reached in Capital Health patient privacy breach
Richard Woodbury reports: A proposed settlement worth about $400,000 has been reached in a Nova Scotia class-action lawsuit relating to the improper access of patients’s personal health information by an employee of the former Capital District Health Authority, according to a law firm involved in the case. The breaches by former employee Katharine Zinck Lawrence, who accessed the…
ID: Madison County held hostage by ransomware on Monday
Lisa Dayley Smith reports: Ransomware held Madison County hostage on Monday and continued through much of Thursday. The hacker demanded money to restore files and access, but Madison County officials declined to pay. Instead, officials turned to their IT specialists to fix the problem. County workers called in specialists on Monday – Columbus Day –…
Minnesota DHS Notifies Residents After Discovering Two Successful Phishing Attacks
KSTP reports: The Minnesota Department of Human Services were victims of a phishing email scam, where someone had the ability to access the information of approximately 21,000 individuals who interacted with the department. DHS confirmed the potential breach Thursday in a statement. DHS sent out a letter dated Tuesday to those individuals whose information may…
Hackers breach web hosting provider for the second time in the past year
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The South African branch of Hetzner, a well-known web hosting provider, has suffered its second security breach in the past year, ZDNet has learned from the company’s customers. According to an email affected users received this week, this second breach came to light last week, on Friday. Read more on ZDNet.