Megan Barnes reports that more than 1,000 patients at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center had their information stolen by a now-former employee who has been sentenced to prison. Albert Torres was reportedly arrested on April 12 after officers became suspicious when his license plates were not those for a noncommercial vehicle. A search…
Andhra Pradesh Tracked You As You Bought Viagra, Then Put Your Name and Phone Number on the Internet for the World to See
Gopal Sathe reports: Bengaluru — If you are the gentleman who bought Suhagra 50, a generic version of Viagra, and some Vomiford anti-nausea drops, on June 13 from a government-run Anna Sanjivini store in Anantpur in Rayalseema, your name, phone number and purchases, were listed on an Andhra Pradesh government website — until HuffPost alerted…
Authorities shut down Dark Web marketplace “Black Hand”
Carolina reports: In a joint operation, French police, the National Directorate of Intelligence and Customs Investigations (DNRED) have shut down one of the largest illegal dark web marketplaces “Black Hand” known for selling drugs, weapons, databases, stolen banking data and fake documents. According to a statement from the Minister of Public Action and Accounts, Mr. Gérald Darmanin on…
More details emerge about Chicago Public Schools data breach
If there is a Keystone Cops equivalent of a k-12 data breach, a recent incident involving Chicago Public Schools may be a strong contender. Last week, this site noted a breach that seemed puzzling in its description. Since that time, some informed parents have reached out to me to provide me with more details about…
All members of Rex Mundi have now been arrested – Europol report
I haven’t posted anything new about Rex Mundi since 2016, but I’ve continued to compile information on them, in part because their use of the extortion model predated the same approach by TheDarkOverlord. But now it appears that all eight members of Rex Mundi have been arrested in a series of arrests beginning in June,…
Hackers want millions from Liberty Life, or will start releasing sensitive data – Report
MyBroadband reports that hackers are attempting to extort Liberty Life: Financial services provider Liberty stated late on Saturday night that it had been hit by an IT systems breach. The company posted a notice to its website which said it had suffered “unauthorised access to its IT infrastructure”. […] According to a report in the Sunday Times…