The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a dharma variant ransomware attack in 2016. Between November and December 2016, the intruders used a brute force attack and exploited remote access that had been secured…
Claims San Diego pharmacy waited months to notify all patients about serious security breach
Jennifer Kastner reports: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in pills were reportedly stolen from a pharmacy in a San Marcos strip mall. Along with the drugs, personal information was taken. Yet it took more than two months for some pharmacy customers to find out their data was in the hands of criminals. In two 10News…
California man convicted of hacking Embarcadero Media in 2015
SAN JOSE – A federal jury returned a verdict yesterday against Ross Colby, finding him guilty of three counts of computer intrusion, one count of attempting to damage a protected computer, and one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois notifies members after vendor alerts them to a fraudulent provider
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) uses a vendor, Dane Street, to provide peer to peer reviews of insurance claims that are denied. On May 10, Dane Street notified BCBS that on April 9, law enforcement had notified them that a doctor who had been providing peer to peer reviews for them was not…
Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack
Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…