Bob Gardinier reports an update to a breach of Samaritan Hospital patient records that began in 2008, was first discovered in November 2011, and was not disclosed until March 2013. Lawsuits by those whose information was improperly viewed using a connection from the county jail nurse’s office to the hospital filed suit in September 2013. Rensselaer County has…
VT: Holiday Motel in St. Johnsbury notifies customers of data security breach dating back to last year
On September 22, 2014, the Holiday Motel learned of potential unauthorized access to its computer systems. Upon discovering this issue, the Holiday Motel immediately launched an investigation into this matter and took steps to prevent any further unauthorized access. To assist with this investigation, independent computer forensic experts have been retained to review the Holiday…
Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On
Nicole Perlroth reports: … Until last year, Dr. Shrobe was a manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as Darpa, overseeing the agency’s Clean Slate program, a multiproject “Do Over” for the computer security industry. The program included two separate but related projects. Their premise was to reconsider computing from the ground up…
I think we’re running out of hashtags for how bad the Sony #databreach was (Update1)
It just gets more and more embarrassing for Sony. Here are just a few stories from today’s news: It Gets Worse: The Newest Sony Data Breach Exposes Thousands Of Passwords Sony Pictures hackers stole 47,000 social security numbers, including Sly Stallone’s SONY PICTURES HACK SPREADS TO DELOITTE: THOUSANDS OF AUDIT FIRM’S SALARIES ARE LEAKED Let the Congressional hearings…
Over 30,0000 Deloitte employees’ salary info possibly stolen from Sony because former Deloitte employee had saved some files?
Oi veh. Kevin Roose reports: Along with the files smuggled out of Sony Pictures this week, we also discovered a cache of documents apparently relating to internal personnel matters at Deloitte. This appears to be an accident of circumstance. The files appear to come from a single target’s computer. While this person appears to be…
Update and Correction: Valve not hacked
In another post on this site, we cited statements by SLC Security that Valve had allegedly been owned. SLC has since corrected their post with the following statement: FRAUD ALERT: Domain’s (sic) posing as Valve Corp (Russian) UPDATE: We were contacted by the hosting provider Akamai and advised that the domain in the capture below…