Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
Category: Breach Incidents
E-Trade notifies 31,000 customers that their contact info may have been breached in 2013 hack
Andrea Peterson reports that E-Trade is first notifying 31,000 customers of a breach it discovered in 2013. The breach was first disclosed in 2014, but at that time, E-Trade reportedly didn’t believe that customer information had been involved. The hackers may have accessed customers’ e-mail names, as well as e-mail and physical addresses, according to a notification…
IT: Faulty file caused Lake Norman High School security breach
It’s nice that the district followed up by publicly disclosing what went wrong. Preston Spencer reports: The Lake Norman High student who obtained an administrative password last week did so by using more sophisticated methods than just simply guessing. Dr. David Blattner, chief technology officer for Iredell-Statesville Schools, said the password, which was spread to six other students…
Chinese businessman pleads guilty to theft of trade secrets
In May, 2015, federal prosecutors arrested Xiwen Huang, and charged him with corporate espionage. At the time, media reported: Huang worked for a company in New Jersey and later a company in Charlotte that he stole trade secret information from, according to court documents. Huang worked on “catalyst” technology for energy technology companies, investigators said. Prosecutors unveiled…
Trustev claims data spotted for sale on dark web likely stolen from Experian/T-Mobile
After the OPM data breach was disclosed, there were reports that some of the stolen data had appeared on the dark web. Later those claims were found to be inaccurate. I wonder if we’re going to see that again with the Experian breach. Mark Sullivan reports: T-Mobile data stolen from the servers of credit bureau Experian is already showing…
Canadian physician facing disciplinary charges over snooping in patients’ records
There’s an update to a breach that I hadn’t read about back in June when it was first reported. The breach allegedly involves one doctor who improperly accessed two patients’ records held at Group Health Centre and Sault Area Hospital. But the allegations have some bizarre features, as SooToday reports: The hospital reported in June that an internal investigation into…