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…
Lithuania: OCCRP Partner Finds ID Theft Hole in Election Site
OCCRP reports: Technical flaws in a voter support site that cost more than US$ 1 million in taxpayer and EU money have left thousands of Lithuanians’ personal data vulnerable, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project partner 15min.lt has reported. An anonymous whistleblower tipped off 15min.lt to flaws in The Voter’s Page (rinkejopuslapis.lt), a system financed by the…
Ca: 19 patients affected in ‘accidental’ Eastern Health privacy breach
CBC News reports: Eastern Health is calling a privacy breach involving 19 patients at a travelling clinic in Happy Valley-Goose Bay “accidental.” “I apologize to all of the patients, as well as their families, for this accidental material breach,” said Eastern Health CEO David Diamond in a news release Wednesday. The health authority said the personal information of…
Amazon Denies Data Breach Rumors but Resets User Passwords Just in Case
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The company says that nobody breached its servers, but that it took this step after its security staff discovered a set of customer details posted online as part of another breach at another company. Amazon says those details matched the details of Amazon accounts, and since it had no way of knowing…