Collaborate Disseminate
Brian Krebs is reporting sophisticated jackpotting attacks against US ATMs. The attacker gains physical access to the ATM, plants malware using specialized electronics, and then later returns and forces the machine to dispense all the cash it has inside. The Secret Service alert explains that the attackers typically use an endoscope — a slender, flexible instrument traditionally used in medicine… Continue reading Jackpotting Attacks Against US ATMs
Coincheck lost 500 million NEM tokens. Continue reading A Cryptocurrency Theft Bigger Than Mt. Gox Just Happened In Japan
Dr. Zachary E. Adkins DDS (“Dr. Adkins”) of Albuquerque New Mexico has advised its patients of a privacy event that may have compromised certain personal information. The events are the result of criminal activity. On November 30, 2017, a laptop bag co… Continue reading NM: Dr. Zachary E. Adkins DDS, LLC notifies patients of stolen hard drive
Jennifer Johnson reports: Park Ridge police are investigating how a computer belonging to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital ended up in the possession of a man claiming to reside in the Philippines, authorities said. The desktop computer was reported … Continue reading Computer discovered stolen from Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge
Jennifer Johnson reports: Park Ridge police are investigating how a computer belonging to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital ended up in the possession of a man claiming to reside in the Philippines, authorities said. The desktop computer was reported … Continue reading Computer discovered stolen from Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge
Chris Opfer writes: Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have fallen into the wrong hands. A few… Continue reading The Coca-Cola Breach and Who’s on Hook for Security of Employee Data
Chris Opfer writes: Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have fallen into the wrong hands. A few… Continue reading The Coca-Cola Breach and Who’s on Hook for Security of Employee Data
Ugh. Another laptop was apparently stolen from an employee’s car. This one was from the education sector, but it contained some student health information and health insurance information. The incident was reported by Montana State University Bil… Continue reading Montana State University Billings notifying students after laptop was stolen in November
I really think that if HHS/OCR handed out a few well-advertised very very large monetary penalties, maybe these unencrypted devices stolen from car incidents would decrease. It really is ridiculous that this is still happening in 2018. It’s on… Continue reading Coplin Health Systems notifies 43,000 patients after laptop stolen from employee’s car
Jonathan Dame reports: Charles River Medical Associates says it lost a portable hard drive believed to contain personal information and x-ray images of everyone who received a bone density scan at its Framingham radiology lab within the past eight year… Continue reading MA: Framingham radiology lab notifies 9,387 patients after drive discovered missing