Researcher Scrapes and Posts 7 Million Venmo Transactions
Venmo is a peer-to-peer mobile app designed to make it easy to send and receive payments from friends. It is owned by PayPal -- and it is no stranger to security issues.
In 2016, a security researcher discovered weaknesses in Venmo's 'reply-to-pay' feature. The attacker would need physical access to the victim's phone, but would not need to unlock it. In this instance, the attacker could use the Siri feature that allows users to reply to text messages from a locked device, and the text message preview feature that displays part of an SMS on the locked device's screen -- both of which features are enabled by default.
AMCA Files for Bankruptcy Following Data Breach
Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, the company that operates healthcare billing services provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a recent data breach affecting millions of individuals.
The breach at AMCA came to light in early June when two of its biggest customers, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, filed 8-K forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Quest said the incident impacted nearly 12 million of its patients, while LabCorp said the breach affected roughly 7.7 million of its customers.
U.S. Planted Powerful Malware in Russia's Power Grid: Report
The New York Times reported over the weekend that the United States planted potentially destructive malware in Russia’s electric power grid, but President Donald Trump has denied the claims.
The newspaper has learned from current and former government officials that the U.S. has been probing control systems of the Russian power grid since at least 2012 as part of reconnaissance operations. However, the officials claimed the U.S. recently ramped up its efforts and started launching more offensive activities that involve placing “potentially crippling malware [...] at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before.”
LabCorp Says 7.7 Million Patients Caught in AMCA Data Breach
One day after medical testing firm Quest Diagnostics revealed that nearly 12 million of its patients had their personal and financial information exposed as a result of a breach at the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), LabCorp has come forward to say that the incident has also impacted 7.7 million of its customers.
AMCA Breach Hits 12 Million Quest Diagnostics Patients
A data breach at billing collections service provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) could impact many of the company’s customers. One victim is medical testing firm Quest Diagnostics and roughly 12 million of its patients.