Paige Thompson, Capital One hacker compromised privacy of over 100 million U.S. citizens

It would appear that Paige Thompson wanted to get caught: she posted extract of the data that she hacked on GitHub, a publicly available coding platform. In a significant development, Capital One Financial Corp disclosed that a hacker, who has been arrested, had managed to obtain the personal information, including names and addresses, of around…

Hackers access 2.65M patient data of Atrium Health, previously Carolinas HealthCare System

The security incident occurred at Atrium Health’s third-party provider AccuDoc Solutions. In yet another massive data breach, Atrium Health, previously known as Carolinas HealthCare System, stated data of nearly 2.65 million patients, including their dates of birth, addresses, and social security numbers, may have been compromised at its third-party provider AccuDoc Solutions. Incidentally, Atrium provides…

U.S. Congress has received details on September 2017 hacking attack: Equifax

The update to the U.S. Congress by the credit monitoring firm sees hackers gaining access to 38,000 driver licenses and 3,200 passport details on top of the millions of private information harvested by them in the September 2017 cyber attack. Continuing its disclosures stemming from the cyber security incident which saw hackers gain access to…