CORRECTION: I picked this up incorrectly as Pittsburgh in PA. A kind reader pointed out my error. This was Pittsburg in Kansas! Corrected Post: The City of Pittsburg hasn’t disclosed how many former and current employees had their W-2 data stolen in a phishing scam on January 30, but I’m betting it’s more than a…
Month: February 2018
Columbia University grad arrested for using key logger software
Robert Abel reports: A Columbia University grad student was arrested for leaving key logger malware on USB sticks left throughout the campus. Bill Liang Lin Wu, 23 was arrested Thursday after he was caught on camera leaving the credential stealing devices on a host of university computers shared by 14 professors. Wu graduated last spring…
NL: Youth, 18, arrested in probe into last week’s tax office cyber attack
An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…
Man sues T-Mobile for allegedly failing to stop hackers from draining his cryptocurrency account
Shannon Liao reports: A man sued T-Mobile on Sunday, claiming that the company’s lack of security allowed hackers to enter his wireless account last fall and steal cryptocoins worth thousands of dollars. Carlos Tapang of Washington state accuses T-Mobile of having “improperly allowed wrongdoers to access” his wireless account on November 7th last year. The…
Malware incident discovered in May, 2017 affected 2,600 patients: Partners HealthCare System
Partners HealthCare System, whose hospitals include Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s, revealed today that it had discovered a malware attack in May, 2017 that may have exposed 2,600 patients’ information. They learned of the problem on May 8, but because data was mixed in with code, numbers, other data, and unformatted, it took them quite…
12 UNC employees’ personal information comprised in cybersecurity breach
Tommy Wood reports: The private information of 12 University of Northern Colorado employees was compromised last week after an “unknown person or group” accessed their profiles on Ursa, UNC’s online portal, according to a release from the university. Whoever is responsible for the breach tried to log in to the employees’ Ursa accounts, then used…