Vascular Surgical Associates in Georgia has been notifying patients of a hack discovered in September. From their site: Vascular Surgical Associates Protected Health Information Breach Vascular Surgical Associates was recently the victim of a hacking incident that may have resulted in inappropriate access to certain information about you. On or about September 13, 2016, we…
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Gorilla Glue Breach Gets More Sticky, 49GB Data Leaked By thedarkoverlord
Last week motherboard reported that hackers had claimed to breach a family owned and operated company, Gorilla Glue and that they had obtained over 500GB of documents. Today those hackers, thedarkoverlord tweeted “A widely held belief is that gorillas are unintelligent. We’re starting to think that they may be right.” which was accompanied by a…
Cyber-crooks menacing hospitals are put under the microscope
John Leyden reports: Cybercriminals are spreading into the healthcare sector even though the price per stolen medical record remains lower than for comparable financial account crime. From hospitals becoming victims of hacking attacks to Olympic champions getting their health records leaked by hackers, the health sector has become a major target for cybercrime. The most…
thedarkoverlord dumps data from Peachtree Orthopedics after failed extortion attempts
Just another day on the internet, where hackers are hacking and leakers are leaking and thedarkoverlord is dumping PHI data from american based companies yet again. The associated with this partial leak of data is not anything new, databreaches.net had reported on this a back in august and now thedarkoverlord has partially come public with…
Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic notifies patients of hack (Update3)
Months after it was hacked by TheDarkOverlord, a second Atlanta orthopedic clinic notifies patients. Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic in Atlanta has disclosed that they were hacked. WSBTV has the story. But the hack wasn’t on September 22 as the news cast seems to suggest – that’s just when they confirmed it. This is all quite interesting, because I had…
Aesthetic Dentistry Hacked by thedarkoverlord
Today a hacker using the name @tdohack3r aka thedarkoverlord has announced a small breach on another service that has exposed PII (personal identifiable information) and PHI (personal health information). This breach announced today was on Aesthetic Dentistry and appears that it may only effect a small amount of 3,500 persons which is very small compared…