Day: June 30, 2020

Unity Point Health, Iowa Healthcare system had a breach of their cyber security by a technique called social engineering. In this case it is where a malicious email is sent with a link or file that is clicked or downloaded which then let’s the attacker have access of your companies personal information.

The parties, which include Unity Point Health reached a settlement of 1.8 million in June 2020, which the court is required to review and decide if they approve it.

Stalker Online is a multi-player game that was hacked and 1.2 million user records were stolen and up put for sale by criminals on hackerforums, which is generally a site for newbie hackers, both ethical and unethical.

A database containing over 1.2 million user records from the popular MMO Stalker Online is being sold on hacker forums. Another database, which allegedly contains more than 136,000 user records from the Stalker Online forums, is being sold separately.

The stolen user records stored in the database include the players’ usernames, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and IP address.

You should reset your password, even if stalker online didn’t do it for you, because in cases like these sometimes they discover more accounts were breached than originally thought. Stalker online says they had secure passwords, even if they were stolen but there are ways to break those so they reset some users passwords.

Additionally, stalker online has activated a two step authentication system so in theory the owner has to approve the second message to avoid these type of hacks. While there are waye around this feature, it is a major improvement from what they had.

Ontario and British Columbia’s information and privacy commissioners have determined LifeLabs, the laboratory testing company didn’t protect the health information of 15 million Canadians, which mainly impacted those living in BC and Ontario.

An investigation found that LifeLabs didn’t implement “reasonable” security to protect their customers personal health informstion. The inadequate cyber security violates BC’s and Ontarios health protection laws.

“LifeLabs’ failure to properly protect the personal health information of British Columbians and Canadians is unacceptable,” BC information and privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy said in a statement.

McEvoy added that LifeLabs left millions of Canadians exposed to “potential identity theft, financial loss and reputational harm.”

The joint investigation determined that LifeLabs failed to implement adequate security rules, whie also collecting too much personal information.

“The breach should serve as a reminder to organizations, big and small, that they have a duty to be vigilant against these types of attacks,” said Brian Beamish, the Ontario commissioner for security and privacy .