Max Bearak reports: Somewhere in India, a young man is sitting in a room, parked in front of his computer, smoking copious amounts of marijuana and causing great embarrassment to some of the country’s biggest movers and shakers. He and a group of others — who he claims number in the “higher single digits” and are based around…
HK: Dozens of bank staff arrested over bribery-linked data leak
Esther Yu reports: Nearly 30 people have been arrested over allegations of bribery in order to obtain confidential customer information for loan business sales purposes, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said. Among the 29 people held after the graftbusters launched operation “Mirabilis” were three managers and 18 serving and former direct sales representatives of a…
Quest Diagnostics notifying 34,000 patients after hacker acquired PHI
Quest Diagnostics is notifying approximately 34,000 patients after their MyQuest patient was hacked and PHI was accessed and obtained. Quest reports that they became aware of the breach on November 28, and that the patient data included name, date of birth, lab results, and, in some instances, telephone numbers. The affected information did not include Social Security numbers, credit…
Nevada Court Says Juror ID Information Compromised
LasVegasNOW reports that an employee of A&B Printing & Mailing LLC, a printing company the courts use to send out jury summons, may have engaged in wrongdoing: Court officials said Thursday they notified 380 people that their personal identity information may have been released without authorization by a company hired to print juror summonses. […]They said…
Netgear working to fix flaw that left thousands of devices open to attack
Steve Ragan reports: A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Nighthawk line of Netgear routers was disclosed on Friday. The flaw leaves customers exposed to having their connections hijacked, as someone exploiting the vulnerability can take complete control of the device. Despite having months to address the problem, Netgear has yet to publish a fix. Read…
T-Mobile’s Digits sign-up page temporarily pulled after some subscriber info was exposed
Jacob Siegal reports: On Wednesday afternoon, T-Mobile unveiled a new program called Digits, which will allow T-Mobile subscribers to use a single mobile phone number across multiple devices and use multiple phone numbers on a single device. Unfortunately, the launch of the exciting new Digits beta was quickly overshadowed by a major error on T-Mobile’s website that…