Looking for some monthly stats on healthcare data breaches in the U.S.? See Protenus’s Breach Barometer for September, produced in conjunction with DataBreaches.net.
Thai regulator clears AIS in data leak
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) cleared the country’s largest mobile operator AIS in a data privacy leak after determining it wasn’t involved in the release of subscriber call and location records. NBTC secretary-general Takorn Tantaisith said the panel found that an AIS employee was responsible for taking the customer data, the Bangkok Post said. Read…
Almost 6,000 online shops hit by hackers
BBC reports: Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research. The code has been injected into the sites by cyberthieves, said Dutch developer Willem De Groot. He found the 5,925 compromised sites by scanning for the specific signature of the data-stealing code in website…
Vermont Attorney General Enters Unique Data Security Settlement With Software Developer
October 12, 2016 In a settlement announced today, software company Entrinsik agreed to provide better warnings after a Vermont college experienced a security breach that potentially exposed 14,000 social security numbers due to the ordinary use of its reporting tool. Because the Attorney General believes that the software practice involved is widespread and many companies may not…
Leaked Data Site Datawh0re hacked, All Dump links Exposed
Recently there has been a huge increase in hacked databases being shared and also sold, and now it appears that one of the services that surfaced a few weeks ago and has already been hacked, dumped and had its domain name revoked. Datawh0re which was found at datawh0re.ru was offering databases for sale and this…
Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic notifies patients of hack (Update3)
Months after it was hacked by TheDarkOverlord, a second Atlanta orthopedic clinic notifies patients. Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic in Atlanta has disclosed that they were hacked. WSBTV has the story. But the hack wasn’t on September 22 as the news cast seems to suggest – that’s just when they confirmed it. This is all quite interesting, because I had…