Hazel Bradford reports: A cyber attack on a computer of a contractor for the $313 billion Thrift Savings Plan, Washington, could have compromised account information for about 123,000 plan participants, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which oversees the plan, announced Friday. […] The attack was made on a computer at Serco Inc., a contractor…
GA: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital notifying home health patients their data may have been stolen for tax fraud
Fox31 in Georgia reports: In a press release issued by Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, they are alerting the public that patient information could be compromised. The release states that on April 9th, Phoebe Putney learned from law enforcement that a now former employee improperly accessed patient information with the intent to process fraudulent tax returns….
SK Communications to appeal data breach ruling awarding damages to consumer
Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…
GE Healthcare Admits Sending NHS Patient Data To US
This report by Steve McCaskill first appeared in April, but I just came across it now: Personal details of 600,000 patients were sent to the US following a mistake made by the NHS’s IT provider, GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare admitted to TechWeekEurope that the error had occurred after it had obtained more patient data than…
WHMCS Attacks Update, DDoS & Forum Defaced, Now Offline
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-1337_0.png On monday the web hosting community was thrown in to anger and worries as thousands of accounts and the complete database and file system of the WHMCS server was leaked online by UGNAZI hackers. Well as if that was not enough for them all week they have been suffering DDoS attacks, which has resulted…
New Town Editorial Uruguay Hacked And Accounts Leaked
A hacker using the handle HackerClaus who has a large amount of pastebin dumps with government leaks, mostly minor but they all build up to show once again lack of security right across the world. One of the most recent attacks is on New Town Editorial Uruguay (https://ciudadnueva.focolar.org.uy/) and the data leak contains 134 accounts with…