At least 10 hospitals in the United States have been hit with ransomware. One hospital, Hollywood Presbyterian, made international headlines when they paid a $17,000 ransom to unlock critical data. Hospitals have become a favorite of hackers due to the nature of the data compromised. With most hospitals modernizing and doing away with written internal […]
North Korean hackers likely used fake Apple ID emails sent to IT administrators at Sony Pictures Entertainment to steal passwords and logins and gain control of the company’s computer network, according to new research. Read more here…
21st Century Oncology revealed in a statement on their website that 2.2 million patients may have had personal information stolen when the company’s system was breached in October 2015. Read more here…
Last year Ubiquiti revealed in an SEC Form 8-K filing that an incident involving “employee impersonation and fraudulent requests from an outside entity targeting the Company’s finance department … resulted in transfers of funds aggregating $46.7 million held by a Company subsidiary incorporated in Hong Kong to other overseas accounts held by third parties.”
At least 1,025 Wendy’s locations were hit by a malware-driven credit card breach that began in the fall of 2015. Read more here…
Personal information of about 14,200 people — largely current and former Salt Lake County employees — was exposed for 75 days last summer, the district attorney’s office has concluded. Read more here…
Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a division of Verizon known for providing IT services and data breach assistance to businesses and government agencies around the world, was hit by hackers who stole the information of about 1.5 million customers. Read more here…
A data breach was reported by Premier Healthcare, a multispecialty provider healthcare group, after a laptop computer was stolen from the billing department of their Bloomington, Indiana headquarters. Read more here…
Though security breaches are more common within the healthcare and financial industries, a recent data breach at the University of Central Florida (UCF) shows that no one is safe from hackers Read more here…
