An episode on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday evening probably alarmed a number of people as it demonstrated how hackers could remotely take over your cell phone and watch you through your camera without anything indicating to you that your camera was in operation, etc. Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone…
Month: April 2016
Fourteen school systems impacted by Innovak Intl breach – IRS
So Innovak International never responded to my inquiries, but an IRS investigator reportedly told others that 14 school systems – three in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi – were impacted by their breach involving employees’ w-2 statements. Innovak’s web site, which never looked particularly confidence-inspiring to me to begin with, has a statement that says: We are currently…
Failed blackmail nets ex-Leumi Card employee 11 years in jail
Gur Megiddo reports a follow-up on an insider breach that occurred in 2014 and was previously covered here and here: A former Leumi Card employee convicted of stealing information from the credit card company’s database as a precursor to blackmail has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Eliran Rosnis admitted the charges against him…
Ca: Children’s aid families’ names posted online
Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
Alabama CVS’ patient information at risk after laptop stolen
Kelly Poe reports: A laptop that contained prescription and patient information on customers of a CVS Pharmacy in Calera has been stolen. CVS learned on March 22 that the password-protected laptop had been stolen from a vendor. The laptop contained information about customers who have had prescriptions filled at the CVS store at 8370 Highway 31…
My realtor’s email was hacked and I’m out $2M: exec’s suit
This is like the third case I can recall like this. Julia Marsh reports: A former Lehman Brothers executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber criminals — and now he’s blaming his real estate attorney and her vulnerable AOL email address for the breach. Robert Millard, who…