Waqas reports: Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army (MMCA) have leaked a trove of data which they claim belongs to Azerbaijani banks, military and police servers. In an email to HackRead, one of the representatives from MMCA said that reason for targeting government and financial servers was to send a ”precious gift” to Azeris on the 25th anniversary of the…
Oh, how America just loves scandals involving the British royalty
Everyone who knows me knows that I generally don’t wade into the muck and mire of celebrity lives or even hacks of celebrities’ iCloud accounts. I’m staunchly on record that even celebrities have a right to privacy. Over the weekend, though, I wound up interviewing a UK man who had involvement in selling Pippa Middleton’s hacked iCloud…
MarsJoke Ransomware Targets the Government and K-12 Educational Sector
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Crooks are targeting government and educational institutions with a new ransomware family named MarsJoke (or JokeFromMars), discovered in late August, but which came to life this week through a massive email spam wave. The group behind this ransomware is using emails disguised as air travel confirmation notifications, which also contain a link…
Alberta College of Paramedics privacy breach put information of thousands of members at risk
CBC reports: A breach that happened with the Alberta College of Paramedics navigation portal may have put the personal information of thousands of first responders in the province at risk. ACP governs and regulates the province’s emergency medical responders, emergency medical technicians, and emergency medical technologists. The regulatory association said, in a release, there was a security breach and…
Newest OCR settlement highlights need to review and update Business Associate Agreements
A newly announced settlement between HHS OCR and Care New England reinforces what DataBreaches.net and Protenus, Inc. have been trying to remind everyone of this week: pay more attention to your business associate agreements and do so regularly. Care New England Health System (CNE), on behalf of each of the covered entities under its common ownership…
Romanian National Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Role In Computer Hacking Scheme
Mircea-Ilie Ispasoiu first came to this site’s attention in 2010, but he really made headlines when he was extradited to New Jersey in March, 2015 on a slew of hacking-related charges. As alleged in the DOJ’s statement at the time: From August 2011 through February 2014, Ispasoiu was employed as computer systems administrator at a large financial institution in…