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Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car
Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving CarWe still have a lot of questions to answer before autonomous vehicles can go mainstream: Who’s at fault if an AV has an accident? Should people need licenses to ride in a self-driving car? How should an AV...
Malware infects Computer System of Chester County
Who: Chester County Government’s Computer System # of Records Affected: At this time, there is no evidence that county information has been accessed or compromised When it happened: February 20, 2019 What happened: Malware activity was detected on the county’s...
The Uk Is Going Cashless And, Like Most Of The World, Has No Plan For What Happens Next
The UK Is Going Cashless And, Like Most Of The World, Has No Plan For What Happens Next Cash usage is shrinking in Britain faster than in most places, and the debate about what to do about it is getting louder. That’s important because, like just about every country...
Where Has All The Ransomware Gone? Cybercriminals Prefer ‘Cryptojacking’
Where Has All The Ransomware Gone? Cybercriminals Prefer 'Cryptojacking'In the world of digital thievery, a business model pivot is apparently underway. Over the past year cybercriminals have shifted their focus from ransomware attacks to so-called cryptojacking....
UnAuthorized Access to Employee Email Accounts at VT Medical Center
Who: Rutland Regional Medical Center # of Records Affected: When it happened: December 29, 2018 What happened: On December 21, 2018, a Rutland Regional employee identified a high volume of spam emails being sent from their email account. How it happened: The...
These Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal
These Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They StealIt’s watching, and knows a crime is about to take place before it happens. Vaak, a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts for potential shoplifters, using footage from...
National Security Agency Halts Surveillance Program Because Trump Won’t Renrew It
National Security Agency Halts Surveillance Program Because Trump Won’t Renrew ItThe National Security Agency has stopped using a surveillance program in recent months that relied on bulk data collected from US domestic phone records, according to a Republican...
Hacker lists 127 Million Records for Sale on Dark Web
Who: Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites # of Records Affected: 127 Million When it happened: February 15, 2019 What happened: A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127...
Malware Attacks Popular Third-Party Municipal Payment System Compromising Residents Data
Who: CentralSquare Technologies, manufacturer of the click2gov bill-pay management system in 46 North American Municipalities # of Records Affected: 294,929 When it happened: December 20, 2018 What happened: Click2Gov, a software application popular among...
Wendy’s Pays $50 Million to Settle Credit Card Breach Lawsuit
Who: Wendy’s Co. # of Records: Credit Card Data from 1000 Wendy’s locations When it happened: 2015 and 2016 What happened: Criminals installed malware on the restaurants’ point-of-sale systems exposing the credit card information of customers at more than 1,000...
Medical Records found in Crates and Partially burned in Atlanta
Who: Southside Medical Clinic # of Records: Undetermined When it happened: A viewer alerted the local news to an issue in a parking lot across the street from the clinic. The news reporter went to an abandoned building across the street, where he found hundreds of...
Hospital Cardiology Unit Patient Records Encrypted by Ransomware
Who: Cabrini Hospital Cardiology Unit # of Records: 15,000 When it happened: February 20, 2019 What happened: A cybercrime syndicate has hacked and scrambled the medical files of about 15,000 patients from a specialist cardiology unit at Cabrini Hospital and demanded...
Intuit Notifies Turbo Tax Users of Possible Credential Stuffing Data Breach
Who: Intuit, the company behind tax preparation software TurboTax # of Records: Undisclosed When it happened: February 25, 2019 What happened: Unauthorized threat actors accessed user accounts. How it happened: Intuit discovered that an unauthorized party accessed tax...
Moral Artificial Intelligence – China Mapping Pig Faces – Trusting Online Reviews: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [03-06-19]
Moral Artificial Intelligence - China Mapping Pig Faces - Trusting Online Reviews: AS HEARD ON WGAN: [03-06-19]On This Episode... Craig is with Ken and Phil, with Phil Harriman covering for Matt. They talked about smart assistants' ethical code, China mapping pigs'...
Student Tax Data Lost in Mail Mishap between Third-Party Vendor and SLCC
Who: Salt Lake City Community College # of Affected: 42,000 What was affected: Documents that deal with the 1098-T tax form used for getting educational tax credits for students was lost during the mailing process. The college uses a third-party vendor and and a...
Large Provider of POS Systems Hit With Credit Card Stealing Malware
Who: North Country Business Products (NCBP) # of Affected: 2% of customer base What was affected: Hackers broke into NCBP information technology network and implanted malware onto POS networks belonging of 139 bars, restaurants and coffeeshops including branches of...
Ransomware Takes Down Cloud SMB Payroll and HR Services Company
Who: Apex Human Capital Management # of Records: What was affected: Ransomware attack this week severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. When it happened: February 19, 2019 How it happened: Infected with a...
Third Party Vendor Used by City Water Department Hacked
Who: Pompano Beach Municipal Water Service # of Affected: 4,000 What was affected: Third-Party Hack When it happened: August 30 to December 6, 2018 How it happened: Hackers gained unauthorized access to credit or debit card data stored with software company Central...
Who Should Store Our Health Records – Can You Trust Online Reviews: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [03-05-19]
Who Should Store Our Health Records - Can You Trust Online Reviews: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [03-05-19]On This Episode... Craig is on the Jim Polito show this morning talking about how to spot fake online reviews. They also talked about storing your health records on your...
Phishing Attack against BenefitMall responsible for PII Release
Who: BenefitMall When: January 7, 2019 # of Records: 111,000 What was affected: Data Breach of Benefit Mall a U.S. provider of payroll, HR, and employer services How it happened: An email phishing attack compromised employee login credentials. Emails may have included...
Huge Serious Breach of Email Addresses
Who: Collection #1 data breach # of Accounts Breached: 772,904,991 What was affected: Email addresses and passwords How it happened: “Collection #1 data breach” is made up of data stolen from numerous different data breaches. In all, there are 1.16 billion unique...
Washington Health Care Provider Succumbs to Phishing Attack
Who: Chaplaincy Health Care # of Accounts Breached: Roughly 1,080 patients. What was affected: Although it appears the schemers only were looking for more email contacts, the employee’s inbox had some patient information, including names, birth dates, partial Social...
Voice Mail Misconfiguration at Manchester Eye Hospital Startles Patients
Who: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital What was affected: Personal information left on voicemail When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: A hospital has apologized after sensitive voicemail messages left by patients were heard by a man trying to change an...
Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Third-Party Vendor hit by Ransomware
Who: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan # of Accounts Breached: 15,000 policyholders What was affected: Demographic data, health plan contract numbers and some medical information. Some data also included Social Security numbers. When it happened: September 23, 2018...
Accidental Information Leak Exposes Student Information
Who: Mandan High School # of Accounts Breached: 1.024 What was affected: Students, addresses, phone numbers, PowerSchool ID's, Department of Public Instruction State ID's, student schedules and locker combinations. When it happened: January 07, 2019 How it happened:...
Insurance Policy Applicants Exposed in Bankers Life Breach
Who: Humana/Banker’s Life # of Accounts Breached What was affected: Applicants’ name, address, date of birth, last four digits of Social Security number, and some information about the health insurance policy (such as the type and cost of the coverage, and application...
Email Accounts of Prominent Politicians, Journalists and Entertainers Hacked
Who: Lawmakers and other prominent Germans, including rappers, journalists and internet personalities # of Accounts Breached: Nearly 1,000 What was affected: Links to their street and email addresses, private chats from social media, bank account details and pictures...
Bad Cyber System Management Causes Data Breach at SingHealth
Who: SingHealth # of Accounts Breached: 1.5 Million SingHealth patients What was affected: Non-medical personal details of 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth's specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics between May 1, 2015, and July 4, 2018, had been...
Telephone Scammers on NH Today WGIR-AM: [03/04/2019]
Telephone Scammers on NH Today WGIR-AM: [03/04/2019] On This Episode... Craig is on with Jack Heath as they discussed the email and phone scams that are happening right now, as well as the new hoax circulating, the Momo challenge. Related Articles We Just Got a...