KFSN reports: Thousands of employees at Saint Agnes Medical Center are dealing with the possibility of identity theft after a security breach. Scammers got the W-2’s of everyone employed by the hospital this week. The breach affected 2,800 employees. Read more on ABC.
Category: U.S.
Probationary employee at CDOT misused employee info
Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
IL: Abingdon-Avon School Board addresses alleged data breach
Tom Loewy reports: So many people attended Wednesday’s special meeting of the Abingdon-Avon District 276 School Board it had to be moved from the superintendent’s conference room to Hedding Grade School’s cafeteria. While roughly 150 visitors were on hand for the start of the 6 p.m. meeting, just 25 stayed through the five-hour executive session…
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.
CA: Humboldt County Notice of Data Breach
May 2, 2016 The County of Humboldt announced today that five computer terminals used by the public in an office on the fifth floor of the county courthouse were misconfigured by a third-party software provider, potentially allowing access to limited confidential information. On April 4, 2016, the county learned that individuals accessing parcel information in…
FL: Owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity arrested for hacking into state, Lee elections websites
Looks like someone forgot to ask, “Mother, May I?” Ben Brasch reports: An Estero man has been accused of hacking into the state and Lee County elections websites. Officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested David Levin, a 31-year-old political consultant and owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, on three third-degree-felony counts of property crimes. […] Agents accuse Levin of illegally…