Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., has publicly disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
The paper refused to pay the hackers' demand for a bitcoin ransom and is notifying subscribers whose information - including names, dates of births, phone numbers, and political affiliations - was affected.
Telecom giant Swisscom yesterday disclosed that an unauthorized intruder misappropriated an unnamed sales partner's access to its data, thereby compromising basic information pertaining to approximately 800,000 customers.
Testifying before members of Congress on Tuesday, Uber Technologies CISO John Flynn acknowledged that his company acted irresponsibly by waiting a full year before disclosing the breach of a third-party database containing information on 57 million customers and drivers.
When it comes to old or no-longer-useful corporate data, you can't just hit "delete." Effective electronic data disposal and destruction requires a much more pragmatic and centralized approach.
White House Budget Director and acting CFPB head Mick Mulvaney won't be pursuing an extensive investigation into Equifax's security practices after hackers stole data on 145.5 million American consumers.
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