Looks like someone forgot to ask, “Mother, May I?” Ben Brasch reports: An Estero man has been accused of hacking into the state and Lee County elections websites. Officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested David Levin, a 31-year-old political consultant and owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, on three third-degree-felony counts of property crimes. […] Agents accuse Levin of illegally…
Month: May 2016
In New York, breach reports are up 40%
New York State no longer makes the breach reports it receives conveniently available online (drat!), but Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a press release today with a few stats of note: The office has received 459 data breach notices from the first of the year through May 2, 2016, as compared with 327 through the…
UK: Health trust fined after data breach
ITV reports: A health trust has been hit with a £185,000 fine after it posted the private details of thousands of members of staff – including their sexual orientation – on its website. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust inadvertently published workers’ confidential data which also included their National Insurance number, date of birth and…
Big data breaches found at major email services : expert
Eric Auchard reports: Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google…
Nazareth Area School District: Student hacked into student, teacher data files
Michelle Merlin reports that Nazareth Area School District has sent out about 5,000 letters to families and teachers after discovering that a student accessed data and uploaded it onto a flash drive between 2011 and 2014. District Superintendent Dennis Riker said the old data contained student information from the district’s lunch program as well as information from a…
UK: Sacked Merseyside policewoman appeals dismissal for snooping on database
Luke Traynor reports that disgraced police constable Paula Humphreys will not just go quietly into the night: A sacked police constable is appealing the decision to dismiss her for snooping on confidential police computers about the criminal activity of her relatives and their boyfriends. Paula Humphreys lost her job in December after a disciplinary panel…