I think a study I saw recently said about 69% of entities reported data loss or breaches associated with departing employees. Vic Ryckaert reminds us what can happen if you don’t have control of all administrator credentials before you terminate an employee: Indianapolis-based American College of Education fired its information technology employee last year, according to court documents, but…
Dutch Cops to Warn 20,000 of Email Account Hack
Phil Muncaster reports: Police in the Netherlands are set to email 20,000 possible fraud victims urging them to change their account details, after discovering their credentials had been stolen by a man arrested last year on suspicion of multiple cybercrime offences. Police revealed the arrest of the 35-year-old man last October. He was cuffed on suspicion of hacking, fraud…
Confidential medical documents from Sainte-Justine Hospital leaked
Pasquale Turbide reports: Officials at Sainte-Justine Hospital are working to resolve a privacy breach after a pediatrician leaked confidential documents to a media outlet before taking his own life. According to Radio-Canada, Dr. Alain Sirard sent a USB key last December to Québécor that contained confidential documents, such as excerpts of medical files and reports…
Sentara notifies 5000+ patients after breach at vendor
WAVY reports: A cyber security breach at a third party vendor for Sentara Healthcare has compromised the records of over 5,000 patients. The incident involves 5,454 vascular and thoracic patients seen between 2012 and 2015 at Sentara hospitals in Virginia. Read more on WAVY. The vendor was not named, nor were many details about the nature of the…
Zimbabwe computer hacker takes $70k from OK Zim
So Zimbabwe hackers wear hoodies, too, it seems. Oh well….. ZimNews reports: A 33-year-old Chitungwiza based computer hacker Isaiah Marange managed to hack into OK Zimbabwe’s Money Wave System and got away with $70,000. He was remanded to February 14 on $300 bail. Prosecuting, Mr Sebastian Mutizirwa alleged that on Christmas Day last year, Marange…
Details of Data Breach at MrExcel.com
Seen at MrExcel.com, a breach disclosure with some plain English writing and transparency. Although it’s not good if the hack occurred because vBulletin hadn’t been patched/updated, this disclosure is an example of clear and helpful writing. 1) What happened? This is Bill Jelen from MrExcel.com. On the morning of December 6, 2016, our moderators detected…