WHAS-TV reports: Clarksville Town Court Judge James Guilfoyle told WHAS-TV Tuesday that computer hackers accessed records filled with names, birth dates, addresses and social security numbers. Investigators are still trying to figure out the scope of the data breach. Read more on WHAS. Update1: The updated information reads like a ransomware situation, but no ransom…
Month: June 2015
Data stolen with pita bread-size decoder
iFreePress reports: Just when you thought it was safe to eat at the neighborhood deli, a group of Israeli researchers has announced they’ve figured out how to pull the encryption keys stored on some computers by using items which can be hidden inside pita bread. An update was released at the beginning of the year…
AU: Sussan’s website taken offline after security breach
Eloise Keating reports: Fashion retailer Sussan took down its own website for six days following “a security incident”. Sussan customers were notified on Friday evening that the company had suspended its website two days earlier, on June 17, after the breach was uncovered. Sussan said its site would remain offline over the week but was…
Even Behind Closed Doors, Senators Aren’t Getting Their OPM Hack Questions Answered
Kaveh Waddell reports: After weeks of revelations about cyberattacks that may have exposed the personal information of as many as 18 million federal workers, Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, gave senators a classified briefing Tuesday to try to put lawmakers’ questions to rest. But senators from both sides of the…
Blackshades malware hacker gets 5 years in prison
Ross Toback and Josh Saul report: The mastermind behind the malicious software “Blackshades” that infected a half-million computers worldwide was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison Tuesday as the federal judge bashed him for “spreading misery to the lives of thousands.” Alexander Yucel, 25, was arrested in Moldova in 2013 and he pleaded guilty…
OPM hack cost estimate is $19M? I think not.
$19 million is the estimated cost of notifications and credit monitoring for affected employees, according to OPM director Katherine Archuleta, It’s not clear to me if she based that figure on the original 4.2M affected figure or a newer 18M estimate. And it doesn’t include notifications or credit monitoring for family members or others whose information was exposed in…