John Johnson reports: Police say a tech expert listed as a “certified ethical hacker” on LinkedIn fell a wee bit short in the ethics department while working with a senior citizen. The Clearwater Police Department says 27-year-old Aaron Daniel Motta robbed nearly $600,000 in cryptocurrency from a customer who hired Motta to set up tech…
Author: Dissent
At small and rural hospitals, ransomware attacks are causing unprecedented crises
Marion Renault reports: At 12:08 p.m. on a Monday, a Sky Lakes Medical Center employee tapped an email link. Within minutes, that click cracked open the Oregon hospital’s digital infrastructure for cybercriminals to infiltrate. By the time IT staff started looking into it, “everything was being encrypted,” said John Gaede, director of information services. On…
Update to Christie Clinics breach disclosure
On March 25, Christie Business Holdings Company, P.C. (“Christie Clinic”) disclosed a breach. As DataBreaches.net reported the next day, the clinic reported that an unauthorized actor had gained access to one business email account between July 14, 2021 and August 19, 2021. Christie’s investigation indicated that the intent of the attacker may have been to…
AlphaV claims attack on Florida International University (updated)
It’s been a while since DataBreaches.net reported on data security incident involving Florida International University in Miami, but if AlphaV’s claims are true, they have been breached again. AlphaV (“BlackCat”) added FIU to their leak site and claim: In our design the following information: -Personal information of students and teaching staff, including confidential data, SSN,…
NYS Comptroller releases more school district IT Audits
Readers may want to read the full LaFargeville report, linked below, because it provides information to school districts about best practices and recommendations for how to accomplish certain security goals. LaFargeville Central School District – Information Technology (Jefferson County) Key Findings District officials did not establish adequate IT controls over physical IT assets and non-student user…
TN: Humphreys County sheriffs arrest two for forgery, identity theft, outstanding felony warrants
Darby McCarthy reports: Early Saturday morning, Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Team B Nights arrested Letia Leco of Camden and Richard Flowers of Jackson on charges of forgery, identity theft and outstanding felony warrants from multiple jurisdictions. Leco and Flowers were found at a hotel in Buffalo with several hundred forged commercial bank checks, over…