Justin Baer reports: Morgan Stanley suspected that Russian hackers stole client data from a former financial adviser who pleaded guilty to illegally accessing the bank’s computers and taking the information home with him. Galen Marsh, who was fired from the Wall Street firm in January for viewing and copying account information on other advisers’ clients, pleaded guilty…
Month: December 2015
CT: Data Security Breach at Middlesex Hospital: 946 Patients Impacted
Samantha Schoenfeld reports: Middlesex Hospital in Middletown says that it suffered a data breach in October. The hospital says that on October 9, it was discovered that four of the hospital’s employees had been victims of an email phishing scam, which allowed a breach into the hospital’s records. In all, information for 946 patients may…
NY: Developer arrested for theft of source code from former employer
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the arrest of XU JIAQIANG for theft of a trade secret, in connection with XU’s theft of proprietary source code from XU’s former…
Elephant Bar alerts customers to possible payment card breach
Ron Ruggless reports: CM Ebar LLC, parent to the Elephant Bar restaurants, warned customers who used credit cards at the 29-unit chain between August and December that their data may have been breached, the company said Tuesday. The casual-dining operator said it was alerted to the potential security breach on Nov. 3, and it has…
UK: Personal registrant data leaked by General Optical Council
Simon Jones reports: Personal data of General Optical Council registrants has been mistakenly shared by the regulator with three optical organisations. Home contact addresses of fully qualified registrants were shared earlier this year with three organisations working within the optical sector. The GOC said the details would have been handed over if a home address…
UK: Students left without internet after massive DDoS against Network Janet
This story appears in The Express with the headline, “Students left without internet after Islamic State ‘hack’ major computer network.” But who says it’s Daesh that’s responsible for this? There is no official attribution and no one’s claimed responsibility. Is The Express jumping the gun with that headline? The only ones who seem to be…