Joe Uchill reports: A database of information on 33 million people was leaked to a researcher, apparently breached from a large business services company. Troy Hunt, who runs the website “Have I Been Pwned” that lets users check if their data has been pilfered, reported receiving the database in a blog post. Hunt did initial analysis of…
GMO Payment Gateway confirms data leakage from two client websites
Maria Nikolova reports: Information security is key in the financial industry but problems concerning maintaining personal data safe keep emerging. GMO Payment Gateway Inc (TYO:3769), the Japanese provider of payment processing services, has sought to apologize over personal data leakage that affected the websites of two of its clients – the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and…
Cincinnati Eye Institute employees victims of tax refund fraudsters
John Matarese reports that a number of employees of Cincinnati Eye Institute have discovered that their identity information has been misused by criminals filing for tax refunds. While CEI claims that any breach does not involve their system, they are offering their employees credit monitoring protection services. At the present time, it’s not clear whether a business associate…
Three Mobile hack affected 76,000 more customers than thought
Cara McGoogan reports: Three Mobile has said that 76,373 more customers were affected in the data breach revealed by the Telegraph last year. The figure brings the total number of people whose information was compromised by cyber criminals to 210,200, up 57 per cent on the company’s initial estimates. Read more on The Telegraph.
City erases, re-installs server after ransomware attack
Scott Liles reports: A cyber attack on the server of the Mountain Home Water Department led to the city refusing to pay a ransom and wiping the machine, Water Department Director Alma Clark said. The server was re-installed from a backup created the night before and no information was lost or stolen, Baxter County Computer Services…
NZ: Patient data system disabled after problem discovered
Eileen Goodwin reports: A new patient information system used by general practitioners had to be disabled yesterday because of a risk of data breach. The Otago Daily Times learned about the situation in a leaked email to southern GP practices. The patient information system has been introduced over the past couple of months to many GP practices…