Trisha Jalan reports: The Andhra Pradesh government has been leaking the personal data of more than 23,000 farmers who have received subsidies from the Andhra Pradesh Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Board, reported HuffPost India. The organisation encourages the growth of Ayurvedic medicines in the state; the subsidies are offered to farmers and tribals – and…
Purdue data breach exposes personal info of 26K prospective students
Ron Wilkins reports: Personal information of 26,598 prospective Purdue students found its way to a parent of a possible student, Purdue spokesman Jim Bush said Thursday in a news release. The file with the personal information was mistakenly sent to a parent of prospective student on May 17. “While Purdue regrets this error, we have…
TX: UMC Physicians offers identity protection to 18,000 patients after data breach
KCBD reports: UMC Physicians (UMCP) is notifying patients who may have been affected by a recent data breach. They are also providing patients, whose information may have been compromised, with information to safeguard against identity theft and fraud and are offering access to one year of credit monitoring and identity restoration services at no cost. According…
FBI PSA: Business E-mail Compromise The 12 Billion Dollar Scam
Jul 12, 2018 Alert Number I-071218-PSA
Hackers are selling access to law firm secrets on dark web sites
Jennifer Schlesinger and Andrea Day report: It would be hard to walk into to a major business and walk away with all its sensitive information. But sometimes that’s not the case when it comes to online networks. Q6 Cyber, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in monitoring the dark web, showed CNBC a forum post in Russian where…
For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement based on multiple hacking incidents. As we reported, Yahoo! suffered two cyber-attacks in 2013 and 2014, which compromised the personal information of billions of users. Yahoo!,…