Tag Archives: breach

Uber Accounts, $1

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Carmelo

Stolen Uber Customer accounts are for sale on the Dark Web for the low price of $1.00. Though most of the credit cards are masked, the last four and the expiration date are still available. The rest of the data … Continue reading →

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150,000 Records Accessed in Advantage Dental Breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Carmelo

Compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, birthdays, phone numbers and home addresses, but not treatment or financial information. The information was accessed between Feb. 23-26, when Advantage’s internal IT specialists detected the security breach.   So far, no patients … Continue reading →

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Premera Blue Cross Breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Carmelo

At the end of January, this year, Premera Blue Cross discovered they were breached. Possibly 11 million records of Personal/Medical and Financial information was exposed. After working with Mandiant and the FBI, the indicators of compromise date as far back … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg Interview with FBI Special Agent of Cyber Special Operations, Leo Taddeo

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Carmelo

The Cost of Security Breaches

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50,000 Names and Driver’s Licenses Disclosed in Uber Hack

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Carmelo

According to Reuters, the ride company, Uber, was breached and around 50,000 names and driver’s licenses of current and former employees was disclosed. The breach happened in May of 2014 but wasn’t discovered until September 2014. Uber also filed a … Continue reading →

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Gemalto and the Great Sim Encryption Key Theft

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Carmelo

Edward Snowden leaked via the Intercept, The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) jointly hacked into the internal network of the largest Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card creator and manufacturer, who also puts the chips into … Continue reading →

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Phishing Anthem

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Carmelo

Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading →

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HSBC Breach In November Reveals…

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Carmelo

HSBC Holdings plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company head-quartered in London, United Kingdom is the world’s second largest bank. Last November, they were breached. HSBC claimed that it “stopped the cyber-attack”, but not before attackers accessed payment … Continue reading →

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Anthem Health Insurance Breach

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Carmelo

Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack. Based on what they know at this time, there is no evidence that credit card or medical information were targeted or compromised, just the other information that makes it … Continue reading →

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770,000 Records From One of Australia’s Largest Travel Insurance Companies

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Carmelo

Around the number of 770,000 records of personal information consisting of travel insurance clients, names, phone numbers, email addresses, travel dates and prices for policies was stolen around December 18th. Aussie Travel Cover notified 3rd party agents, but did not … Continue reading →

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