I am absolutely delighted to welcome Lee Johnstone as a contributor to DataBreaches.net. Lee – better known to some of you as @Cyber_War_News on Twitter – and I have teamed up over the past 8 years or so on a number of projects or analyses. As of today, Lee’s web site, cyberwarnews.info, has been...
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site’s reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. We all know, or should know, about the sextortion emails people are receiving where the sender...
Lisa Washington reports: Ellwood City Medical Center officials are investigating whether any patient records were compromised Tuesday after a cyber attack. The Beaver County Times reports that on Tuesday, officials from Ellwood City Medical Center said the hospital was the victim of a cyber attack. This isn’t the first time the hospital is under...
Kade N. Olsen, Michael F. Buchanan and Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap write: Today, New York’s top financial regulator, the Department of Financial Services, announced the formation of a dedicated “Cybersecurity Division.” In a news release issued earlier today, the agency said the new division “will focus on protecting consumers and industries from...
It’s been a strange week, Part 2. An open letter to Twitter.