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Unencrypted medical data leads to 12-state litigation

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Twelve US states are suing an electronic healthcare record provider who lost 3.9 million personal records in 2015.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2018

Malicious Chrome extension which sloppily spied on academics believed to originate from North Korea

Computer users are being reminded once again to take care over the browser extensions they install after security experts discovered a hacking campaign that has been targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2018

Facebook Exposes Nonprofits to Donors—and Hackers

As the founder and director of a nonprofit animal shelter on the East Coast, Alana has spent most of the past decade caring for pets that might otherwise be euthanized. Her work also resonates with people online—the Facebook page for the shelter has more than 1.3 million followers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2018

Quora hack leaves details of 100 million accounts exposed

It’s not a site that I use often, but I woke up this morning to discover that overnight I had received two emails from Quora.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2018

Marriott sued hours after announcing data breach

Hours after announcing a data breach on Friday, two Oregon men sued international hotel chain Marriott for exposing their data. Their lawsuit was followed hours later by another one filed in the state of Maryland.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2018

Dunkin' Donuts Serves Up Data Breach Alert

Dunkin' Donuts has alerted DD Perks account holders to a security incident after learning an unauthorized party accessed some of their usernames and passwords, NBC News reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2018

Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach

Starwood Hotels has confirmed its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has been stolen in a data breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 30, 2018

Dell suffers security breach, reset customer passwords (but didn’t tell customers why until now)

Computer manufacturer Dell has revealed that earlier this month it discovered that hackers had breached its security and were attempting to access customer details - including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2018

Texas hospital becomes victim of Dharma ransomware

The Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) has revealed a ransomware outbreak which may have led to the leak of patient data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2018

New HealthEquity Data Breach Exposes PII/PHI of Almost 21,000 Customers

HealthEquity, an IRS non-bank health savings trustee who is handling more than 3.4 million health savings accounts, was breached when an intruder accessed the email accounts of two HealthEquity team members, exposing protected health information (PHI)/personally identifiable information (PII) of 20,906 subscribers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2018

Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Criminals sent posts from both Google’s G Suite account and Target’s official Twitter account.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2018

The Hack Millions of People Are Installing Themselves

Your internet browser is a doorway to your computer. Everyday users are installing all manner of browser extensions—small pieces of software that live inside Chrome or Firefox—to optimize their workflow, block ads, or otherwise improve their web experience.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 15, 2018

WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked

The EU General Protection Data Regulation (GDPR) is supposed to make companies take extra care with their customers’ personal data. That includes gathering explicit consent to use information and keeping it safe from identity thieves.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2018

Income, tax and immigration data stolen in Healthcare.gov breach

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now has details about the data stolen in the breach of Healthcare.gov that occurred last month. According to the government agency, a significant amount of personal information including partial Social Security numbers, tax information and immigration status was compromised in the breach.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2018

Dharma Ransomware Hits Altus Baytown Hospital's Systems

Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) was hit by a ransomware attack on September 3, 2018, with a lot of documents containing patient info being encrypted and the attackers requesting a ransom to unlock the hospital's data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2018

HSBC Bank in U.S. suffers data breach

HSBC Bank, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, on Tuesday confirmed it suffered a data breach last month, which it believes affected less than 1% of its bank customers in the U.S.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2018

The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China's Captain America

In April of 2015, IT staffers within the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency that manages the government's civilian workforce, discovered that some of its personnel files had been hacked. Among the sensitive data that was exfiltrated were millions of SF-86 forms, which contain extremely personal information gathered in background checks for people seeking government security clearances, along with records of millions of people's fingerprints.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2018

Personal Facebook Messages Of 81,000 Hacked Users Up For Sale

Hackers have published private messages from the compromised accounts of some 81,000 Facebook users and put them up for sale on the internet, according to a BBC News report.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 05, 2018

FIFA Hacked Again, Gets Ready for New Stories Based on the Stolen Data

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement to the press that the world football governing body's computer systems suffered a data breach for the second time this year. Moreover, both the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) are both suspected of having suffered data breaches.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2018

Feds: Chinese spies orchestrated massive hack that stole aviation secrets

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed charges that accused two Chinese government intelligence officers and eight alleged co-conspirators of conducting sustained computer intrusions into 13 companies in an attempt to steal designs for a turbofan engine used in commercial jetliners.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2018

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