Francesca Gattuso reports: A northwest suburban mortgage loan processor stole “dozens” of victims identities to open bank accounts, credit cards and loans, authorities said. Karolina M. Klambatseas, 34, worked for various mortgage companies while committing the theft dating back to May 2015, Wheaton police announced Monday. Read more on Chicago Sun-Times.
Month: January 2017
AU: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care
Beau Donnelly reports: Victoria’s embattled child protection department has again been caught leaking private information – even after an internal inquiry identified a litany of breaches. Three months after the Andrews government pledged better training for staff, the Department of Health and Human Services released a file containing protected information about dozens of children in foster care….
Hackers attempted to blackmail Brazil broker XP over client data breach -Valor
Tatiana Bautzer of Reuters reports: Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret, the online service of newspaper Valor Econômico said on Monday. According to Valor, which reviewed documents related…
Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for Lloyds Bank Outages, Ransom Demand
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of at least two hackers has tried to extort a ransom payment from the Lloyds Banking Group according to a copy of an email the hackers sent to a high-ranking executive. The extortion attempt took place on January 11, the first day some Lloyds Bank customers experienced short-lived problems with accessing their…
NYS audit finds Holland Patent Central School District not adequately protecting PPSI
Another audit from the NYS Comptroller is worthy of note here. This one audited the Holland Patent Central School District for access to their student information system (SIS). The District operates four schools with approximately 1,500 students and 300 employees. This audit covered the period of July 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016. According to the state, the…
Expert Hacks Internal DoD Network via Army Website
Eduard Kovacs reports: A security researcher who took part in the Hack the Army bug bounty program managed to gain access to an internal Department of Defense (DoD) network from a public-facing Army recruitment website. [….] Roughly 118 of the reports have been classified as unique and actionable, and participants have been awarded a total…