Jon Brines reports: A former Central High School student has been named in a criminal complaint for allegedly hacking into the school district’s network, disrupting it, copying and posting the information online. “We had a student that was hacking into the system and it did slow down the system,” District Administrator Scott Pierce said Friday….
Month: September 2015
Texas hits leak researcher with Civil Investigative Demand for Systema Software’s leaked data
There’s a bit of an unusual development to an incident that was first reported on DataBreaches.net. As reported previously, The leak of data on AWS from Systema Software impacted numerous individuals who filed insurance claims – primarily in California, Kansas, and Utah. In addition to personal and financial information, the leak also exposed proprietary information such as legal…
Federal Charges Brought In Tallahassee Cyberstalking Case
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Michael Daniel Rubens, 30, formerly of Tallahassee, with seven counts of cyberstalking, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and one count of aggravated identity theft. Rubens was arraigned this week in the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova,…
Class action suit brought against Excellus over hack
It may be the first, but I doubt it will be the last lawsuit filed. There’s nothing dramatically different about the complaint compared to other lawsuits in that there are no claims of concrete harms like fraudulent accounts, etc. The main claim is that the plaintiffs have spent time and money protecting themselves. The lawsuit includes…
Brazil’s Cybercrime Problem
Robert Muggah and Nathan Thompson report: Brazil is at the epicenter of a global cybercrime wave. The country ranks second worldwide in online banking fraud and financial malware, and the problem is only getting worse. According to official sources, the number of cyberattacks within the country grew by 197 percent in 2014, and online banking fraud spiked by 40…
AU: Immigration investigation judged ‘unfair’ after asylum seeker data breach
Nicole Hasham reports: Former immigration minister Scott Morrison presided over an “unfair” investigation that ensured asylum seekers were unsuccessful in showing a serious data bungle made it more dangerous to return home, the Federal Court has found. The privacy breach, when the Immigration Department published online the confidential details of almost 10,000 asylum seekers, raised the prospect that…