Zack Whittaker reports: Animoto, a cloud-based video maker service for social media sites, has revealed a data breach. The breach occurred on July 10 but was confirmed by the company in early August, and later reported to the California attorney general. Names, dates of birth and user email addresses were accessed by hackers, but the…
Legacy Health email breach exposes 38,000 patients’ information
Elliott Njus reports: About 38,000 Legacy Health patients’ personal, medical or billing information might have been accessed in a May email breach, the health system said Monday. The Portland-based nonprofit health system said someone accessed multiple employees’ email accounts, some of which contained patient information. The breach was not discovered until June 21 and not publicly disclosed until…
Russian blogger uncovers a treasure trove of police records at an abandoned station in Moscow
Meduza reports: On August 16, blogger Lana Sator, a self-described “urbex [urban exploration] tourist” published photographs from an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, which once housed a police station and office of the (now dissolved) Federal Migration Service. Sator says she crawled into the two-story building through an open window. The building was unguarded…
How K–12 School Districts Can Best Prepare for Ransomware Recovery
Karen Scarfone reports: No matter how many layers of security school districts put in place to stop ransomware, it’s inevitable that, at some point, an endpoint will be infected. Since January 2016, there have been 355 cybersecurity-related incidents against K–12 schools, including ransomware attacks, according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. In 2016, 60 percent…
Hackers hit American Eagle Credit Union
Greg Edwards reports: American Eagle Credit Union said Monday its ATM system and member accounts had been hacked. The credit union said members would not be liable for any related losses. Read more on KSDK.
NHS trusts lost or misplaced 9,100 patient records last year
The Commentator reports: The National Health Service (NHS) has lost almost 10,000 patient records in the last year, according to new research from leading tech think tank Parliament Street. The findings are disclosed in a new report entitled ‘NHS Data Security: Protecting Patient Records’ examines the amount of patient records that have been misplaced from…