J. M. Porup reports: At a court hearing earlier this month, the UK’s National Crime Authority (NCA) demanded that Lauri Love, a British computer scientist who allegedly broke into US government networks and caused “millions of dollars in damage,” decrypt his laptop and other devices impounded by the NCA in 2013, leading some experts to warn that a…
Month: March 2016
Godiva workers’ IDs sold in Florida sting, feds say
Stephanie Allen reports: A Kissimmee man is facing federal charges alleging he sold hundreds of Godiva Chocolatier employees’ identities. Jonathan Munoz was arrested Thursday after meeting with an undercover Internal Revenue Service agent to allegedly sell a list of names, Social Security numbers and date of births, court documents state. Read more on Orlando Sentinel. So where…
Cumbrian hacker who attacked Moonpig avoids prison
Wow. This kid got off lightly, compared to what would likely have happened here in the U.S. News & Star reports that Anthony Luke Fulton was given a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay both a £100 victim surcharge and £100 in compensation…
Oilpro.Com Founder Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Hacking Into Competitor’s Computer System
DAVID W. KENT, the founder of professional networking website Oilpro.com (“Oilpro”), was arrested for charges relating to computer hacking and wire fraud. The charges stem from KENT’s alleged role in repeatedly hacking into a competitor’s database to steal customer information and attempting to sell Oilpro to the same company whose database KENT had hacked. KENT…
Norfolk Admirals’ data breach exposes customers’ names, other information
Kimberly Pierceall reports: A hacker posted several thousand Norfolk Admirals customers’ email accounts, addresses and names on Wednesday, but the team’s online security firm says the data breach affected only about 250 customers. Norfolk Admirals Vice President Joe Gregory said his online security firm eliminated duplicates and spam email addresses from the list, significantly winnowing…
Vidant Health notifies patients whose PHI was exposed in court bankruptcy filings
Vidant Health, who notified employees at its Duplin hospital of a breach in February, has been notifying patients of a separate breach. In a letter to 897 patients, Privacy Officer Joy Hardee writes that Vidant first discovered a problem on January 14, 2016. The letter does not indicate when the breach first occurred, however. … We are…