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A ransomware attack on Spokane, Washington-based Columbia Surgical Specialists on Jan. 9 resulted in unauthorized access of medical records of almost 400,000 patients, the healthcare provider said in a press release. Although the FBI and security compa… Continue reading Columbia Surgical Specialists Pays Almost $15k Ransom Following Ransomware Attack
Far too many organizations found their names in headlines during the first month of 2019. Many came after a security researcher discovered a trove of Elasticsearch database misconfigurations that left data exposed without passwords. In one of the more… Continue reading Preventing Security Breaches Within Company Search Applications
A new survey of 300 IT professionals working in organizations with 100 or more employees conducted by Syncsort, a provider of tools for managing large amounts of data, finds 85 percent are confident in their organization’s cybersecurity even though 41… Continue reading Survey Surfaces Range of Cybersecurity Disconnects
The data includes email addresses and hashed passwords, as well as already public information. Continue reading Quora Announces Data Breach of 100 Million Users
With big companies entering the healthcare market, the inevitable must be asked: How protected is our private data? What can be done with regards to data privacy and security? Ten Years from Now … Ten years from now we could be facing the mother of al… Continue reading Collecting and Storing Private Data: Limits with No Limits
Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the ‘View As’ feature.
At the time of the initial disclo… Continue reading 30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You’re One of Them
Women’s fashion retailer SHEIN has suffered a major security breach that has exposed the personal information and passwords of over six million customers. In a press statement, SHEIN reveals that it discovered on August 22 2018 that malicious hac… Continue reading Malware steals passwords from 6.4 million SHEIN customers
The infamous criminal collective known as Magecart has successfully infiltrated the Newegg site and stole the stored payment card details stored by the company’s customers. This is a critical breach into the online merchant’s systems as the… Continue reading Magecart Hackers Stole Customers Payment Card Data from Newegg
A week ago today another massive corporation was the target of a hacking attempt: telecom company, T Mobile®. The company was targeted by a reportedly “international” hacking group. The attack was successful, with almost 2 million T Mo… Continue reading Reconsidering Identity Security: The T Mobile® Breach
The popular social news and entertainment network Reddit announced that its servers were successfully compromised by hackers. The attack which was detected on June 19 let hackers obtain sensitive user data including usernames, hashed passwords, email a… Continue reading Reddit Data Breach Let Hackers Steal Sensitive User Data