Another entity affected by the Summit Reinsurance ransomware attack in March, 2016 is first notifying individuals of the incident. See this report about PrimeWest Health. The insurer notified HHS of the incident on December 29, reporting that 2,441 members were affected. The reinsurer’s breach was discovered on August 8, 2016, and yet affected entities are…
218,000 AlphaBay marketplace users’ private messages acquired by bug hunter
If you’re a darknet vendor who has the skills to really test the security of marketplaces where you might hawk your wares, what do you do? Well, if you’re a vendor known as “Cipher0007” on reddit, and you find problems, you try to alert the marketplace, and then go public if they don’t respond promptly. This…
Mortgage loan processor stole dozens of identities
Francesca Gattuso reports: A northwest suburban mortgage loan processor stole “dozens” of victims identities to open bank accounts, credit cards and loans, authorities said. Karolina M. Klambatseas, 34, worked for various mortgage companies while committing the theft dating back to May 2015, Wheaton police announced Monday. Read more on Chicago Sun-Times.
AU: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care
Beau Donnelly reports: Victoria’s embattled child protection department has again been caught leaking private information – even after an internal inquiry identified a litany of breaches. Three months after the Andrews government pledged better training for staff, the Department of Health and Human Services released a file containing protected information about dozens of children in foster care….
Hackers attempted to blackmail Brazil broker XP over client data breach -Valor
Tatiana Bautzer of Reuters reports: Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret, the online service of newspaper Valor Econômico said on Monday. According to Valor, which reviewed documents related…
Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for Lloyds Bank Outages, Ransom Demand
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of at least two hackers has tried to extort a ransom payment from the Lloyds Banking Group according to a copy of an email the hackers sent to a high-ranking executive. The extortion attempt took place on January 11, the first day some Lloyds Bank customers experienced short-lived problems with accessing their…