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Laptop with Sensitive Information Stolen from Canadian Car Park
Who: United Conservative Party # of Accounts Breached: 40,000 members What was affected: Names, addresses, and contact information When it happened: How it happened: A party laptop was stolen out of an employee's car in a parking area. Outcome: The party informed...
Jira Visibility Controls allows for Breach of PII at NASA
Who: NASA What was affected: Employee usernames, names, email addresses, and project names. When it happened: September 2018 How it happened: The reason for the leak was Jira's visibility controls, which a NASA system admin appears to have mixed up. Outcome: NASA and...
Stolen Hard Drive Exposes Diagnostic Images from Texas Orthopaedic Firm
Who: All-Star Orthopaedics What was affected: The stolen hard drive includes x-rays and other diagnostic images. If opened, the image files contain patient names and birthdates. No additional information is stored on the pictures on the hard drive. When it happened:...
Canadian Hospital Breach Exposes Hundreds of Patient Records
Who: Belleville General Hospital # of Accounts Breached: Hundreds of patient records What was affected: Patient records. The accessed information could include names, addresses, birth dates, health card numbers, and other health information. When it happened:...
Targeted Data Breach Exposes Victorian Government Employees
Who: Victorian Government, Australia # of Accounts Breached: 30,000 Victorian public servants What was affected: Work emails, job titles and work phone numbers. When it happened: December 22, 2018 How it happened: The work details of 30,000 Victorian public servants...
Data Breach Game Maker Exposes Data of 7.6 Million Users
Who: Town of Salem - BlankMediaGames # of Accounts Breached: 7.6 Million What was affected: Usernames, Email addresses, Passwords in the (phpass), MD5(WordPress), MD5(phpBB3)) format, IP addresses, Game & forum activity, Purchased game premium features, but...
Singapore Airline Hack Exposes Travel Details
Who: Singapore Airlines # of Accounts Breached: 284 KrisFlyer members What was affected: Their names, flight history, recent miles transactions and rewards were disclosed to other members. Furthermore, seven of the total cases may have had their passports numbers...
SecurityThing – Why Business Feels Vulnerable To Security Attacks: [02/28/2019]
SecurityThing - Why Business Feels Vulnerable To Security Attacks: [02/28/2019] On This Episode... It's another It's a Security Thing Thursday. Craig talked about why businesses feel vulnerable to security attacks and what they can do about it.Share This EpisodeFor...
Kitchen Utensil Manufacturer E-commerce Website Hacked
Who: OXO International What was affected: Customer data: customer and payment information When it happened: Between June 9, 2017 – November 28, 2017, June 8, 2018 – June 9, 2018, and July 20, 2018 – October 16, 2018 How it happened: OXO International has stated that...
7 years of FBI Investigation Data leaked on Unprotected Oklahoma Server
Who: Oklahoma Securities Commission What was affected: The FBI files contained “all sorts of archive enforcement actions” dating back seven years (the earliest file creation date was 2012). The documents included spreadsheets with agent-filled timelines of interviews...
Targeted Phishing Attack Against Employees of Kent County Mental Health
Who: Kent County Community Mental Health Authority # of Accounts # of Accounts Breached: 2,284 What was affected: Personally Identifiable Information, Names of Medical Providers, Medical #'s, Schools, Ethnicity, Relatives. When it happened: October 28, 2018 How it...
FBI investigates Nigerian Fraud against School System
Who: Caddo Parish School System What was affected: This phishing scheme targeted funds designated for Charter Schools USA, which operates Magnolia School of Excellence. When it happened: Summer 2018 How it happened: Caddo Schools makes monthly payments to the charter...
Wisconsin Police Department Hacked, Information Stolen
Who: Kewaskum PD Computer # of Accounts Breached: 2,720 potential victims What was affected: Personal information including date of birth, drivers license and social security numbers may have been stolen. When it happened: August 2018 How it happened: This all came to...
Keeping Your Family Safe Online: AS HEARD ON WGAN
Keeping Your Family Safe Online: AS HEARD ON WGANOn This Episode... Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. They talked about Zillow helping to flip houses, the YouTuber who discovered a pedophile ring in YouTube, and an app that might help stop you from...
Credential Stuffing Attacks Possible now due to Massive Data Breach
Who: People’s Email Addresses and Passwords used to log in to third-party sites No. of Accounts Breached: 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords that were used to log in to third-party sites What was affected: 773 million unique email...
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What Is The Dark Web – Who Created It: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [02-26-19]
What Is The Dark Web - Who Created It: AS HEARD ON: WTAG: [02-26-19]On This Episode... What is the dark web? What will you find in the dark web? Craig is on today on the Jim Polito show as they discussed the dark web, the pedophilia ring that a YouTuber discovered,...
City of Knoxville released personally identifiable information on Employees
Who: City of Knoxville No. of Accounts Breached: 1,470 employees were affected by the inadvertent posting of personal data. What was affected: Employee names, addresses, dates of birth, gender and Social Security numbers and other types of employment information. When...
Hackers steal Customer Credit Cards from Discount Mugs
Who: DiscountMugs.com No. of Accounts Breached: Thousands of customers who made purchases through the site during the four months. What was affected: Credit card numbers, the security code, and expiration date, as well as names, addresses, phone numbers, email...
Hackers Exploit Vulnerability to take down Whistler.ca Website
Who: RMOW - Resort Municipality of Whistler What was affected: Municipal website, whistler.ca, has been breached When it happened: December 28, 2018 How it happened: The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is informing members of the public that its municipal...
Philippine Management Company Email Server Breached
Who: Cebuana Lhuillier No. of Accounts Breached: Over 900,000 What was affected: Clients' names, birth dates, email addresses, mobile numbers and in some cases, income information When it happened: August 5, 8, 12, 2018. How it happened: "On January 15, 2019, we...
Fort Worth Data Analytic Firm Loses 10 years of Mortgage Information
Who: Ascension No. of Accounts Breached: 24 million financial and banking documents What was affected: A decade’s worth of data, containing loan and mortgage agreements, repayment schedules and other highly sensitive financial and tax records that reveal an intimate...
Dublin’s Tram Service Computers held Ransom
Who: Luas, Dublin’s Tram service No. of Accounts Breached: 3,226 What was affected: Luas’ website When it happened: January 3, 2019 How it happened: The crook claims to have breached Luas’s systems and has threatened to publish its customers’ data if the organization...
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Presidential Candidate And Unemployment Riots on NH Today WGIR-AM: [02-25-2019]
Presidential Candidate And Unemployment Riots on NH Today WGIR-AM: [02-25-2019] On This Episode... Craig is on with Jack Heath as they talked about the presidential candidate who is trying to fend off the unemployment riots. These and more tech tips, news, and updates...
Malware Compromised Titan Manufacturing and Distribution System
Who: Titan Manufacturing and Distributing No. of Accounts Breached: Not disclosed however their external counsel, Butler & Snow, to the Washington State Attorney General reports that 1,838 Washington residents were being notified of the breach. The same law firm...
Black Rock Asset Management Posts Confidential Information Online
Who: BlackRock Inc. # of Accounts Breached: More than 12,000 What was affected: Names and email addresses of financial advisers who buy BlackRock’s ETFs on behalf of customers. When it happened: December 5, 2018 How it happened: BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest...
Wichita State University Employees Targeting in Phishing Scam
Who: Wichita State University No. of Accounts Breached: At least 3 employees What was affected: Bank account numbers, student records, and other personal information. When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The employees were victims of an e-mail phishing...
Cincinnati Ice Cream Website Hacked
Who: Graeter’s Ice Cream Online Store/Website No. of Accounts Breached: 12,000 What was affected: Credit card information. The information entered during checkout that the unauthorized code could have potentially copied includes first and last name, address, telephone...
30-year old “Computer Genius” arrested in Football Club Hack
Who: Football Clubs No. of Accounts Breached: 70 million documents What was affected: Private documents were hacked that included details about a number of players' contracts and clubs' plans and conversations. How it happened: Hacker used a string of hacking...
Ransomware strikes Podiatry Office
Who: Bobby Yee, D.P.M. No. of Accounts Breached: 24,000 patients What was affected: Medical files, including patient personal information. The altered information may have included first name, last name, address, telephone number, age, gender, date of birth, Social...
Malicious Smartphone App Steals Data and Airtime from South African Customers
Who: Upstream No. of Accounts Breached: 27 million transaction attempts What was affected: Alcatel Smartphones. The weather app’s background activity, invisible to users, was reportedly consuming up to 250MB of their mobile data daily. When it happened: January 2019...