Jack Julian and Jean Larouche report: Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner is lambasting a Sobeys pharmacist for snooping through the private medical records of 46 people over a two-year period. The College of Pharmacists confirmed the woman at the centre of the investigation was Robyn Keddy, who managed the pharmacy in Greenwood, N.S., a rural community about…
Three members of notorious “FIN7” criminal ring in custody for attacking more than 100 companies
The Department of Justice announced a stunning arrest today of key players in one of the most damaging threat actors in the last decade. Kudos to all involved in their arrests. You can read the DOJ’s full press release below, but let’s start with a quote from a FIN7 hunter: “FIN7 is the most prolific and…
Reddit discloses a breach
From their announcement by KeyserSosa today: TL;DR: A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. Since then we’ve been conducting a painstaking investigation to figure out just what was accessed, and…
Forum post claims breach of 850k military based job seekers from recruitmilitary.com
Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop has also stated that they was given it by an anonymous source earlier this year, has not stated where it came…
Hackers linked to Russian government targeted Swiss chemical weapons experts
The Local reports: The Swiss Spiez Laboratory, which specializes in the prevention of chemical, biological and atomic warfare, was apparently attacked by a group of hackers linked to Russia’s secret service. The canton of Bern-based laboratory was apparently targeted for its role in the investigation into the Skripals’ poisoning in the UK. Read more on…
BitPaymer Ransomware Infection Forces Alaskan Town to Use Typewriters for a Week
Catalin Cimpanu reports: On Monday, officials from Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su), a borough part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, said they are still recovering from a ransomware infection that took place last week, on July 24. The ransomware infection crippled the Borough’s government networks and has led to the IT staff shutting down a large swath…