On June 14, medical claims processor Med Associates issued a press release notifying an unspecified number of patients of a hacking incident. The firm had become aware of unusual activity in their system on March 22. Now Brian Nearing of the Times Union has an update that indicates that more than 270,000 New York residents…
Email providers blacklist oregon.gov, now state can’t email some members of the public
When you think of consequences of employees clicking on phishing emails, did you ever think about how an entire state government might wind up having their email domain blacklisted? It happened to Oregon because oregon.gov was used to send out spam after an employee clicked on a phishing email. Hillary Borrud reports: Oregon’s state technology workers…
MO: Black River Medical Center notified patients whose information was potentially accessed
Black River Medical Center in Missouri has sent notification letters to an unspecified number of patients potentially affected by a phishing incident discovered in April. Here is their June 13 notice from their web site: Black River Medical Center has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent…
Bithumb $31 Million Crypto Exchange Hack: What We Know (And Don’t)
Wolfie Zhao reports: On Wednesday, roughly 35 billion Korean won (around $31 million) in cryptocurrency was stolen by hackers from the South Korea-based exchange Bithumb. Although the breach may not be as severe as the $530 million hack of the Coincheck exchange earlier this year, the fact that Bithumb now ranks as the sixth biggest…
AU: University of New South Wales loses data after IBM storage failure
Julian Bajkowski reports: UNSW students are facing the prospect that some information saved to the university’s online storage has been lost for good after a 16 hour-long outage this month blamed on IBM. “Regrettably, some students may have lost some data in the outage,” UNSW said in a statement to students. The statement advised that…
Flightradar24 suffers security breach
Ry Crozier reports: Popular flight tracking site Flightradar24 has suffered a security breach that “may” have compromised the email addresses and hashed passwords of “a small subset” of users. Users began receiving emails overnight asking them to reset their passwords, and the company later confirmed in multiple forums the emails were genuine. Read more on…