Dylan C. Robertson reports: Kevin Hunt travels whenever he finds time off and a good deal. So when his credit statement listed Kayak.com, he went to the travel booking site to see which trip the charge was for. The site allows people to find reservation details by searching their last name and the last four…
Updates to Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach report
As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Hacked By @UG #UGNAZI
@UG aka #UGNAZI has been very very busy the past few weeks with big and high profile targets being attacked and lots of main media attention being directed towards them. The latest attack is on Six Flags Entertainment Corporation which has been breached, hacked and now sports a all new deface page. The hack has seen…
Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps
Joseph Menn of Reuters reports that some U.S. firms are fighting back against hackers in unorthodox – if not downright illegal – ways: “Not only do we put out the fire, but we also look for the arsonist,” said Shawn Henry, the former head of cybercrime investigations at the FBI who in April joined new…
U. professor takes on hospital in Utah Medicaid breach
There are so many complaints and lawsuits following breaches that I long ago gave up on mentioning them all. But Kristen Stewart of the Salt Lake Tribune reports on one complaint that I found particularly interesting: When University of Utah health law professor Leslie Francis learned her name and Social Security number had been exposed in the…
Hospital Management Systems Breached, By @OfficialComrade .c0mrade
.c0mrade ( @officialcomrade ) has been very busy the past few weeks. The latest hack is on a hospital management system and .c0mrade has targeted two different hospitals after he was able to login to the system remotely with a very simple username and password. In the release is a few pictures and a message to the creators of this software…