Lacey Steele reports that Colorado State U. – Pueblo has notified over 19,000 students and applicants of what they believe is a low-threat breach: A few students accidentally gained access to some files containing personal information, but they told school authorities immediately and the problem was fixed. Read more on KOAA.
Category: Breach Incidents
SC: 34,000 exposed in U. South Carolina breach
Andrew Shain reports: The University of South Carolina said today that confidential information about 34,000 people could have been exposed in a hacker attack on the College of Education’s web server. The school said it discovered the breach on June 6. No evidence was found that the hackers accessed every record on this server, but…
Israeli businesses hit by wave of hacker extortion
Tamir Cohen reports: Several financial institutions and businesses have recently fallen victim to extortion by organized crime rings and independent hackers, which has cost these victims anywhere from a few thousand shekels to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Various ruses are used, but a common tactic is infiltrating a company’s computer network or an employee’s…
CA: Clerk arrested for allegedly leaking confidential, sealed federal files
Rina Palta reports: An FBI undercover officer allegedly bought sealed documents from the court clerk’s husband. Nune Gevorkyan was caught in a sting for allegedly leaking files. According to the FBI, an undercover agent approached Gevorkyan’s husband, Oganes Koshkaryan, about purchasing information from confidential, sealed federal files. Koshkaryan later returned with information on pending arrest…
10 Faroe Islands Sites Hacked, Data leaked for #OpHarpoon by #DoktorBass
Yesterday was a busy day for Anonymous Australia hacktivist #DoktorBass who has kicked off a new operation which has been dubbed #OpHarpoon and an operation against whaling. The announcement for the operation was made over the weekend and by last night 10 sites had been hacked three of which have been left with deface pages as well…
Georgia Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Crimes
A tax return preparer from Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false claim for tax refund, theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue (IRS) announced. According to court documents, Willie C. Grant is a former tax return preparer who used many of his former clients’…