Shades of J. Edgar and dirty politics! I’m classifying this as a privacy breach and also an infosec breach as these data were supposed to be protected. Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon report: The Secret Service’s assistant director urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public,…
Month: September 2015
Chase Can’t Dodge $10M Identity Theft Suit
Rose Bouboushian reports: Chase Bank must face identity theft claims for employees who let money launderers use a customer’s dormant accounts in a Medicare fraud scheme, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday. Yelena Galper sued JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. in New York state court in May 2013, claiming several of its employees accepted bribes to…
CIA Withdrew Officers From US Embassy In Beijing After OPM Breach: Report
Aditya Tejas reports: The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pulled a number of officers from the American Embassy in Beijing as a precautionary measure after a massive cyberattack in June compromised the personal data of over 22 million federal employees, according to a report Tuesday. U.S. officials reportedly said the data breach was conducted by…
Payment processor YapStone sued over vacation rental payments data breach
From the well-that-was-quick dept.: Last week, this site reported that YapStone (VacationRentPayments) was notifying property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental payments that personal information in their account applications was compromised by unauthorized persons. Yesterday, Law360 reported that a New Jersey customer has filed a lawsuit against them in California federal court accusing YapStone of…
Is This Journalist Guilty of Low-Level Vandalism, or High-Damage Hacking?
The case of the former Reuters employee accused of involvement in hacking the L.A. Times has finally gone to trial. Sarah Jeong reports: A defense lawyer for Matthew Keys, a journalist charged with helping Anonymous “hack” the LA Times website, told a jury on Tuesday that his client was not guilty because he neither intended to cause…
ATM Skimmer Gang Firebombed Antivirus Firm
Brian Krebs reports: It’s notable whenever cybercime spills over into real-world, physical attacks. This is the story of a Russian security firm whose operations were pelted with Molotov cocktail attacks after exposing an organized crime gang that developed and sold malicious software to steal cash from ATMs. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.