Zack Whittaker reports: Food delivery startup DoorDash has received dozens of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. Dozens of people have tweeted at @DoorDash with complaints that their accounts had been improperly accessed and had fraudulent food deliveries charged to their account. In many cases, the hackers changed their email addresses…
Government Data Says Millions Of Health Records Are Breached Every Year
Michela Tindera reports: Either hackers want your health data, or companies like health insurers can’t keep that information safe. That’s a according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number of annual health data breaches increased 70% to 344 over the past seven years, with 75% of the breached, lost,…
Aspire Health hacked by phishing scheme, lost ‘protected health information’
Brett Kelman reports: Aspire Health, a large Nashville health care company that offers in-home treatment in 25 states, was hacked earlier this month and lost at least some patient information to an unknown cyberattacker. The hack, disclosed for the first time in federal court records filed on Tuesday, occurred after a phishing attack gained access to…
Security researcher fined for hacking hotel Wi-Fi and putting passwords on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Singapore authorities have fined a Chinese security researcher with SGD$5,000 (USD$3,600) for hacking into a local hotel’s Wi-Fi system without authorization and then publishing a blog post about it, revealing passwords for the hotel’s internal network. The incident took place at the end of August, this year, when Zheng Dutao, 23, of…
Breaches Don’t Correlate To Real Results
Joshua Danielson writes: According to Wired, a recent breach at a marketing and data aggregation firm you’ve probably never heard of potentially exposed the personal information of practically every American adult alive today. Such a story has to leave some wondering what the long-term impact is for organizations. I decided to try to find out….
NewsNow suffers security breach – passwords should be considered compromised
Graham Cluley reports: Online news aggregation service NewsNow has admitted that it has suffered a security breach. I could find no mention of the data breach on NewsNow’s website or Twitter account (the last news it shares on its Twitter account announces the 2017 engagement of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, so perhaps they don’t…