Aaron Diamant reports: The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of Kennesaw State University server. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems was compromised. Sources tell Diamant the hack happened Wednesday night and voter data maintained there was compromised. Read more on WSBTV. In related…
Month: March 2017
Turkish suspect identified in Vienna airport cyber attack
The Local reports that a failed cyber attack on Vienna airport last year has been traced back to a Turkish man living in Kentucky. Arslan A., also known as Osman T. or General Osman, has a military background in Turkey. […] In a tweet last September, the hacker group “Aslan Neferler Tim” or “Lion Soldiers Team”…
Hundreds of Lowe’s customers’ personal information compromised
Paul Boyd reports: Personal information connected to hundreds of Lowe’s customers has been compromised. The breach is connected to a fax machine in Vancouver, Canada. A spokesperson from the company that owns the machine does not want to be identified, but said they have received more than 250 pages of customer order information in recent…
Health insurer Excellus fails in latest attempt to get breach lawsuit dismissed
Patrick O’Neill reports the latest litigation update involving Excellus, whose breach was covered on this site in 2015: Four years after Excellus BlueCross BlueShield was hacked and more than 10 million members had their data exposed, the insurer remains on the defensive in class action lawsuits claiming it ignored cybersecurity at peril of its own members….
Columbia Sportswear Accuses Former IT Employee Of Hacking
Steven Trader reports: Columbia Sportswear Co. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Oregon federal court accusing a former employee in its information technology department of illegally hacking into its computer system after he resigned and assessing highly confidential company information for the benefit of the company’s business partner that hired him. You can read more…
Laptops stolen from UC-Santa Cruz instructor’s home contained students’ information
That this is still happening in 2017 is …. disheartening. From a notification being sent by the University of California – Santa Cruz: We are contacting you regarding an incident involving the theft of a laptop that contained your personal information. What Happened? On January 13, 2017, two unencrypted laptops were stolen from the home…