KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
Month: March 2015
The best laid plans, derailed by DDoS
So I had planned to spend some time this weekend working on a post about why I think Rogers was incorrect when they claimed “no personal data” was acquired by TeamHans in a recent hack reported on this site. My plans were derailed a few days ago when my sites were suddenly no longer reachable. It…
MX: Vivanuncios user data stolen by hacker (nah – scraped by competitor)
Update/Clarification: eBay reached out to DataBreaches.net to ask that we make clear that the breach did not occur after eBay purchased the site, but rather, it occurred while it was still on the W3 system – before eBay bought it. eBay also notes that “we launched an entirely new platform on January 15, 2015 when the acquisition was…
Ex-Pratt & Whitney Engineer Denied Bail In Data Theft Suit
Daniel Wilson reports: A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday denied bail to a former Pratt & Whitney engineer accused of stealing sensitive proprietary military aircraft information and unlawfully attempting to take that information to China, after prosecutors argued he was an “obvious” flight risk. Yu Long has been charged with printing out proprietary documents related to advanced materials…
Toronto Star's View: Ontario should prosecute those snooping into patients’ medical records
From a Toronto Star editorial: There isn’t much point in having a law on the books only to have people flout it with impunity. Yet that’s precisely the case with legislation that’s supposed to protect Ontarians from unwarranted snooping into their medical records. The province’s Personal Health Information Protection Act has been in force for more than…
PA: Amazon employee charged with stealing credit card info
Eric Mark reports: West Pittston police have charged an employee of Amazon with stealing credits from customer gift cards and adding them to her own Amazon account. Amanda Budurka, 23, of Hanover Township, was arraigned on felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud on Friday before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Carmody….