Consumers who used the apple.afsmith.bm web site may wish to check their credit card statements. Raymond Hainey reports: Office supplies firm AF Smith has suspended sales on its Apple website amid fears over credit-card hacking. A message sent to customers by the firm said that it was contacting them “regarding recent fraudulent activity in Bermuda involving credit cards”….
Teenager to appear in court over alleged hack and data theft
The Belfast Telegraph reports that a teenager scheduled to appear in Norwich Youth Court on October 18 is thought to be connected to the hack of TalkTalk back in October, 2015. On Thursday he was accused of seven counts of offences against the Computer Misuse Act 1990 during October 2015, following an investigation by detectives…
Notice of Data Incident at Stallcup & Associates, CPAs
On July 11, 2016, Stallcup & Associates, CPAs was subject to a ransomware virus and some of our network files were encrypted without our permission. Fortunately, the virus was detected within an hour and immediately stopped. Although there is no evidence that any files were viewed or exfiltrated, nor that such activities were intended, we are notifying…
Probe of leaked U.S. NSA hacking tools examines operative’s ‘mistake’
Joseph Menn and John Walcott report: A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The tools, which…
500 million Yahoo accounts breached; biggest breach ever publicly disclosed
Kim Hjelmgaard and Elizabeth Weise report: Information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen from the company in 2014 and the company believes that a state-sponsored actor was behind the hack. The information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions…
Dozens of clinics, thousands of patients impacted by third-party data leak
EMR4all, Inc. was a California business providing free EMR software to physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy practices that used their associated patient billing service, Rehab Billing Solutions (RBS). Over the summer, they began shutting down operations and notifying their clients of their closure. Their effort to make a graceful exit wound up marred by a data…