Robert McMillan reports: A June 2010 hacking incident that compromised a network at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland happened on a test system and not the bank’s production servers…. According to Gates, the hacker managed to break into a single Fed test PC that was connected to other test computers. “This is a system…
Category: Breach Incidents
California serious about unauthorized employee access to patient data
The California Dept. of Public Health has just fined seven more entities whose employees improperly accessed patient data. You can read the summaries on the companion blog at It’s great that the state is fining them, but one wonders why HHS/OCR are not also fining entities for these types of breaches or even worse…
UK: Pc accused of lying to help lover ‘misused database’
A Strathclyde Police officer accused of lying to help protect his lover carried out a check on his partner using an official database, a court has heard. Det Supt Shona Bassano told Glasgow Sheriff Court that Pc Steven Smith searched for his boyfriend David Brydon on the Scottish Intelligence Database. Read more on BBC.
Class-action suit filed against UH over data breaches
Gene Park reports: The University of Hawaii is now the target of a class-action lawsuit filed today, as a result of recent data breaches. The main plaintiff in the case, Philippe Gross, was a student at the Manoa campus from 1990 through 1998. He said four other names have been attached to his social security…
MN: Last of seven plead guilty to credit card fraud scheme targeting people at Minnesota restaurants
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota: The last of seven defendants pleaded guilty earlier today in federal court in St. Paul in connection with a credit card skimming operation that resulted in an estimated loss of more than $150,000. Appearing before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle, Nancia Raquel Range, age 34,…
Malaysian National Indicted for Hacking into Federal Reserve Bank
The Dept. of Justice issued the following press release about a case noted earlier today on this blog: Defendant’s Criminal Activities Extended to the National Security Sector A four-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn today charging Lin Mun Poo, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, with hacking into a computer…