More on the South Miami Hospital insider breach: Myriam Masihy of NBC6 reports that Pictures taken in February and March of 2012 show Alci Bonannee and Chante Mozley, two convicted identity thieves, withdrawing cash from several banks in Broward County. The federal government says the money came from stolen tax refunds that belonged to people…
Month: March 2013
14,000 Student Credentials leaked from KTU Career Center, Lithuania
An Anonymous supporting hacker using the handle Hacker sTz & sTz Bar has hacked a Lithuania based university and as a result over 14,000 student login credentials have been posted. The attack has happened some time in the past few days and it was announced via the hackers face book page but the leaked data was uploaded to…
24 Pakistan Government Sites Exposed For Common Passwords
A hacker who uses the handle Godzilla or G.O.D has posted to pastebin on the 13th a statement which is followed by a list of Pakistani database credentials. G.O.D has carried out this attack claiming that Pakistan is supporting terrorist activities via ISI. Pakistan is a country which is currently supporting terrorist activities through ISI, and if they regret Pakistan…
Steakhouse Data-Theft Leader Gets As Much as 13 1/2 Years
Just to follow-up on previously reported breaches: The leader of a ring of waiters who copied customer credit cards at New York steakhouses including Smith & Wollensky and the Capital Grille so accomplices could buy luxury goods was ordered to go to prison for as long as 13 1/2 years. Luis “Damian” Jacas, 42, oversaw…
Does a presidential executive order on cybersecurity get a hotel chain off the FTC hook for its breaches?
I occasionally check the docket for FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham over the multiple breaches they experienced. A story in my news reader today about how Ben Rothke of Wyndham Worldwide gave a talk on “The five habits of highly secure organizations” struck me as somewhat ironic, and I decided to see where the lawsuit stood. Of…
Bivens action claims IRS agents engaged in warrantless seizure of 60M medical records of 10M people during raid
Rebekah Kearn of Courthouse News reports: John Doe Company sued 15 John Doe IRS agents in Superior Court. “This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service (‘IRS’) agents (collectively referred to as ‘defendants’ herein) during a raid of John Doe Company, in the Southern District of California,…