The Eastbourne Herald reports: Sussex Police is investigating security breaches of its external website over the Christmas period. Three breaches have been identified within a contained area of the website and could possibly be linked. Amaraghosha Carter, the joint head of IT for Surrey and Sussex police forces, said, “A full investigation is underway to…
Feds still unraveling extent of tax fraud in Miami Dade College student accounts
Jay Weaver reports: A tipster walked into the FBI’s South Florida office a few years ago to complain that young cyber criminals in the North Miami area were using something called a “key” in street lingo to steal people’s identities. That key, FBI agents would soon figure out, was really a combination of names, birth…
Universities hacked, data dumped by @MarxistAttorney (Update4)
There’s someone else I need to follow, as he/they seems to be hacking a number of universities and colleges. In a post on Pastebin yesterday, @MarxistAttorney (web site) claimed a number of hacks, including, California State University, University of Kentucky, University of Connecticut, University of Maryland, Coastal Carolina University, and Abertay University. For each entity, there…
As I was saying….
And more medical/health information held by non-medical entities gets leaked. The hackers known as Rex Mundi, who freely admit that they hack for profit and attempt to extort their targets into paying them NOT to leak hacked data, have posted data on the Dark Web from entities that failed to pay them. Among the companies is…
The hack affecting postal workers also involved medical/health data
One of the recurring themes on this blog has been that medical/health data deserves stringent protections, regardless of the type of entity that collects and retains the information. We saw this again recently when we learned that Sony employees enrolled in Sony’s health plan had their information hacked and then exposed on the Internet by the hackers….
When a Patient’s Death is Broadcast Without Permission
Charles Ornstein, ProPublica reports: This story was co-published with the New York Times. Anita Chanko could not sleep. At 4 a.m., on an August night in 2012, she settled onto the couch in her Yorkville living room with her dog, Daisy, and her parrot, Elliott, and flipped on the DVR. On came the prior night’s episode…