Debbie L. Sklar reports: A Riverside woman is expected to be sentenced Monday to at least two years in federal prison for stealing the private information of more than 50 patients of a Long Beach residential medical facility. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a Los Angeles federal jury in January of conspiring to possess more…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…
BREAKING: FBI raids former sheriff’s deputy over hack, data dump on PBSOTalk.com (Update 1)
Last week, DataBreaches.net broke the story of how some south Florida agencies’ databases were still accessible to a Russian known online as “BadVolf” (or “BadWolf”). BadVolf, a self-identified friend of Mark Dougan, claims to have previously hacked and dumped thousands of confidential records of judges, police officers, and other law enforcement officials in retaliation for how the Palm…
GhostShell, the morning after
So after yesterday’s story about GhostShell doxing himself publicly through his interviews with us (which he then shared a bit of with other news outlets), I asked GhostShell this morning how he was doing and feeling. He answered with this: This is definitely a unique experience for me. A bit scary but at the same…
Taking pity on law enforcement, Romanian hacker “GhostShell” doxes himself
What does a prolific Romanian hacker have to do to get arrested in Romania? And why would the 24-year old hacker known as GhostShell be willing to risk arrest by doxing himself? In a wide-ranging interview with DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info, GhostShell discussed hacking, the scene, and the reasons for his unexpected decision to dox himself. This article by DataBreaches.net and…
Ottawa Hospital hit with ransomware, information on four computers locked down
Vito Pilieci reports: The Ottawa Hospital has confirmed that four computers in its network of 9,800 were hit with ransomware last week which encrypted the information on those machines making it unaccessible to hospital administrators. “No patient information was affected. The malware locked down the files and the hospital responded by wiping the drives,” said…