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If you've heard of the medical bill collector American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA), it's probably not because you saw an ad on TV. Most likely you heard about its supernova-level mismanagement of cybersecurity, or you read that, as a consequence, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,
The AMCA breach affected as many as 20 million consumers. The situation at this third- and sometimes fourth-party debt...
The former CIO of Equifax has been sentenced to prison for selling his stock in the company before news of its 2017 data breach was publicly announced.
Jun Ying, the former Chief Information Office of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions, sold his shares in the company for over $950,000 ten days before the company admitted that its data had been accessed...
A bill that would provide a billion dollars to states for election security was blocked by Senate Republicans.
The Election Security Act, proposed by presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), would have required paper ballots for voting systems as well as for President Trump to provide a strategy for protecting institutions from foreign cyberattacks.
“There is a presidential election before us...
Online invitation service Evite notified users about a data breach of user data that included names, usernames, email addresses, passwords, and mailing addresses.
The company disclosed the breach following the release of the affected data on the dark web. A hacker claimed to have access to 10 million user accounts.
“We became aware of a data security incident involving potential unauthorized...
If you're like most people, you feel confident and well-informed about online security, and if you're like most people you have absolutely no reason to feel that way.
That was the conclusion of a new survey from Harris Poll and Google, which found that 55% of Americans above the age of 16 graded themselves as an A or B when it comes...
Online activity by Russian trolls in the lead-up to the 2016 election was significantly more widespread than initially estimated, cybersecurity firm Symantec concluded.
Symantec announced their findings following the analysis of a dataset released by Twitter in October 2018. The data, consisting of 3,900 accounts and 10 million tweets linked to a Russian company known as the Internet Research Agency...
At least 11 million public and private photographs were found on an unsecured database connected to an online photo sharing service.
Researchers from VPNMentor discovered an online database that they traced back to Theta360, a photo service specializing in panoramic photos taken with Ricoh-brand cameras. The unsecured data contained photographs, usernames, full names, and photo captions, including those marked by...
Quest Diagnostics, a leading American clinical laboratory company, announced today that 11.9 million patients may have been compromised in a vendor-related incident.
A statement released by Quest revealed that an "unauthorized user" had gained access to a system used by American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a billing vendor subcontracted by a Quest contractor called Optum360. Patient Social Security numbers and...
HBO's hit series Game of Thrones is now history, but it will live on in the hearts, minds and social media interactions of its followers for some time to come. Before now the only thing GoT fans wanted besides a juicy spoiler was to know who would take the Iron Throne. How it all ended was something hackers spent...
First American Financial Corp. left hundreds of millions of sensitive financial documents unprotected on its website dating back as far as 2003.
The security hole, discovered by Washington real estate developer Ben Shoval and reported by security expert Brian Krebs, allowed anyone with a web browser full access to digitized records related to mortgage deals. Among the leaked information were...