Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause in New Jersey recently started notifying patients of an incident involving their electronic health records server, maintained by an unnamed third party. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Diamond’s external counsel wrote: On February 27, 2017, Diamond discovered that an unknown individual had gained access to the…
Ontario government scrambling after printing mistake causes data breach affecting thousands
Vito Pilieci reports: The provincial government is scrambling to notify thousands of Ontarians that they have been victims of a data breach that has exposed the health card numbers, birth dates and homes addresses of at least 5,600 people. Anne-Marie Flanagan, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, admitted the breach after the…
BEC attacks have hit thousands, top $5 billion in losses globally
It’s nice to see this site’s findings agree with government assessments of a problem. It’s also nice to see our efforts put to good use. Steve Ragan has a new piece on Salted Hash with an update on BEC attacks, including those targeting W-2 information. DataBreaches.net has already compiled more than 200 instances of W-2 BEC…
Confluence charter school servers are hacked
Kristen Taketa reports: The network servers for Confluence Charter Schools in St. Louis were hacked over the weekend, but school leadership say they have no evidence yet that student or employee data were compromised. The hacking has affected the schools’ emails, phones, student information system and payroll system, CEO Candice Carter-Oliver said in a statement…
Hackers Find Celebrities’ Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains
Nicole Perlroth reports on how hackers go after vendors and contractors to gain access to their real targets. It’s something TheDarkOverlord emphasized repeatedly in discussing their attacks with me since last year, and Perlroth provides other examples as well: In December, hackers impersonating an executive at Interscope Records, the record label owned by Universal Music Group,…
‘TuftsLeaks’ releases documents containing sensitive financial information
Liam Knox reports: This week, a group calling itself TuftsLeaks published documents online that contain sensitive financial information from Tufts. The leak included department budgets, the salaries of thousands of staff and faculty and the ID numbers of student employees with salaries listed. Only student salaries from fiscal year 2015 were listed in the leaked documents….