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Virus Infects City Network Shutting It Down
Who: Augusta, ME Municipal Operations # of Records/People Affected: Undetermined When: 18 April 2019 What happened: A nasty, intentionally deployed virus shut down public safety computers and made the city's entire network unusable. How Did it happen: A piece of...
Medical Service Provider hit by Ransomware
Who: Doctor’s Management Service # of Records/People Affected: 38 Healthcare Centers When: 25 April 2019 What happened: Medical billing service provider ‘Doctors’ Management Service’ suffered a ransomware attack compromising patients’ data from a number of its...
Unsecured Database Exposes Personal Information of Voters Who Contacted Representatives
Who: VoterVoice # of Records/People Affected: 300,000 unique email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers of people who have sent messages to legislators or participated in campaigns around hot political topics When: 5 Apr 2019 What happened: An unsecured...
Financial Security Breach Against Ohio School District
Who: Aurora City Schools # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: The school district’s financial information When it happened: February 26, 2019 How it happened: The attack was sophisticated and acted out by criminals with experience. Outcome: Administrators...
Service Provider Website Used As Platform to Launch Attacks on Israeli Websites
Who: Nagich, McDonald’s Israel, Newspaper Makor Rishon, and business news site Calcalist to name a few # of Accounts Breached: More than a million Israeli websites What was affected: When it happened: March 4, 2019 How it happened: A massive hacking attempt to infest...
Unauthorized Access To Family Practice Office Responsible for Breach of Patient Information
Who: St. Francis Physician Services # of Accounts Breached: More than 32,000 patientsWhat was affected: Names, addresses, health insurance information, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. When it happened: January 4, 2019 How it happened: SFPS posted a...
Financial Services Department Accidentally Mails Personal Student Information
Who: University of Waterloo # of Accounts Breached: 2000 Students exposed What was affected: Personal information including names, student numbers, addresses and banking information When it happened: March 6, 2019 How it happened: Personal information including names,...
Slack Is Bridging Email To Chat, Improving Calendar Integration And Search
Slack Is Bridging Email To Chat, Improving Calendar Integration And Search Slack arrived more than five years ago with the bold attempt to try to kill email in the workplace. It’s 2019, we’re all still sending emails, and Slack may have even made emails stronger....
Facebook Expects To Face Largest Ever Civil Fine For User Privacy And Data Breaches
Facebook Expects To Face Largest Ever Civil Fine For User Privacy And Data BreachesFacebook warned investors Wednesday it expects to face the largest ever civil penalty imposed by the Federal Trade Commission on a tech company for its mishandling of user data, a...
Falling For Phone Scams Could Be An Early Sign Of Dementia, Study Says
Falling For Phone Scams Could Be An Early Sign Of Dementia, Study SaysThe woman lives alone, but she's rarely lonely. Friends stop by most mornings, and a niece looks in weekly. Still, most of her afternoons and evenings are spent sitting in her chair, looking at the...
Google’s Wing – Not Amazon — Has Landed The First Approval For Drone Delivery
Google’s Wing – Not Amazon — Has Landed The First Approval For Drone DeliveryA Google offshoot just got the FAA’s first go-ahead for drone deliveries. The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday authorized Alphabet’s Wing Aviation to start delivering goods via...
Creepy Billboards Are Tracking British Shoppers With Built-In Cameras That Target Ads Based On Your Mood
Creepy Billboards Are Tracking British Shoppers With Built-In Cameras That Target Ads Based On Your MoodSURVEILLANCE cameras in shopping centre billboards are being used to spy on you so you can be targeted with the 'correct' advertisements. The giant screens contain...
Departing The U.S. From An Airport? Your Face Will Be Scanned
Departing The U.S. From An Airport? Your Face Will Be ScannedU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is set to expand the use of facial recognition tech to identify just about every person leaving the United States on a commercial flight. As Quartz reports, the CBP...
‘Spaceplane’ That Could Fly From Nyc To London In 1 Hour Makes Breakthrough
‘Spaceplane’ That Could Fly From NYC To London In 1 Hour Makes BreakthroughA “spaceplane” that flies 25 times faster than the speed of sound has passed a testing milestone. The hypersonic plane is so fast, it could jet from London to New York in less than 60 minutes...
Blackmail Afoot: Mark Zuckerberg “Leveraged” Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals And Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show
Blackmail Afoot: Mark Zuckerberg “Leveraged” Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals And Help Friends, Leaked Documents ShowFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a...
Students Break Into District’s Student Information System to Manipulate Grades
Who: Orchard View Schools # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Grades and attendance When it happened: March 8, 2019 How it happened: Students of Orchard View Schools hacked the district’s student information system and made changes to grades and attendance,...
Principles Used In the Kentucky Derby That You Should Apply to Cyber Security Right Now
Today I am standing outside WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY. Yes, I said that right it is Ver-Sales, not Versailles as in France. Many of you may know the name WinStar because in last year their horse, Justify won the Kentucky Derby and went on to Claim the Triple...
Employee Accessed Patient Records without Permission
Who: Hawkesbury General Hospital # of Accounts Breached: Undetermined What was affected: Personal information When it happened: Between March 2016 and October 2018. How it happened: One employee at Hawkesbury General Hospital improperly accessed patient information....
Private Colleges Admission Files Breached
Who: Oberlin College, Grinnell College, Hamilton College # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Admissions database When it happened: March 2019 How it happened: The mysterious sender offered the student a chance to see his file, including comments by admissions...
Michigan Health Alliance Crippled by Ransomware
Who: Health Alliance Plan # of Accounts Breached: More than 120,000 What was affected: Customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, member identification numbers, health care provider names, patient identification numbers and claim information, such as the service...
Serious Flaw in Communication App Exposes Data of 5 Million
Who: Dalil # of Accounts Breached: More than 5 million users What was affected: Personal Information by Users. The app collects users’: Cell phone number, IP address (internal and external where applicable)Device model, token, serial number, and operating system, IMEI...
PII from Accounting Firm Released Due to Un-redacted Recycling
Who: Professional Tax & Accounting What was affected: Tax documents. Personal information. When it happened: March 18, 2019 How it happened: When employees came to work at a Marshall County recycling center, they found boxes of documents that included people's...
Ransomware Encrypts UK Police Union Data
Who: Hampshire’s Police Federation # of Accounts Breached: Nearly 120,000 officers. What was affected: A number of databases. When it happened: March 21, 2019 How it happened: At approximately 2.45pm on 21 March 2019, the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW)...
Why Apple Stock Went Up – How The US Lost The Cellular Data Industry – Amazon Burning Books: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-01-19]
Why Apple Stock Went Up - How The US Lost The Cellular Data Industry - Amazon Burning Books: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [05-01-19]On This Episode... Craig is on with Ken and Matt as he does every Wednesday morning. Today they talked about Facebook facing a huge fine, why the...
Driving A Tesla Model 3 Or A Prius – Causes More CO2 Emissions -Study Out Of Germany: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-30-19]
Driving A Tesla Model 3 Or A Prius - Causes More CO2 Emissions -Study Out Of Germany: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [04-30-19]On This Episode... Did you know that driving a Tesla or a Prius causes more CO2 emissions than a diesel car? Find out more as Craig talks about it with...
Fired Employee Retaliates by Deleting AWS Servers of Former Employer
Who: Voova # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and 23 servers. When it happened: 22 Mar 2019 How it happened: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a...
Florida Police Sergeant Data -Mined Police Database for Dates
Who: Bradenton Police Database # of Accounts Breached: Over 150 records What was affected: Personal information When it happened: 2011-2018 How it happened: Former Bradenton police sergeant Leonel Marines was suspended for three days without pay in 2012, after the...
Driving A Tesla Results In More CO2 – Senate Gets Hit By Insider Hackers – Sen Hassan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/29/2019]
Driving A Tesla Results In More CO2 - Senate Gets Hit By Insider Hackers - Sen Hassan on NH Today WGIR-AM: [04/29/2019]On This Episode... Did you know that driving a Tesla results in more CO2 emissions? Craig discussed this with Jack Heath, as well as Senator Hassan's...
International CyberCriminals to Blame for Breach of Citrix internal network
Who: Citrix # of Accounts Breached: What was affected: Business documents When it happened: March 6, 2019 How it happened: "On March 6, 2019, the FBI contacted Citrix to advise they had reason to believe that international cybercriminals gained access to the internal...
Data Breach At Third Party Medical Billing Company Exposes Rehab Patients
Who: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital # of Accounts Breached: 4,755 What was affected: Private information of patients. When it happened: Around September 25, 2018 How it happened: An unauthorized party got access to the company’s computer system and infected it...