July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers. The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…
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Ex-clerk arrested in Worth County Magistrate Court information leak
Jim West reports: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials say former Worth County Magistrate Court clerk Tammy Hall Powell, 54, of Sylvester has been charged with obstruction-hindering law enforcement and violation of oath of office. According to the GBI, Powell, who resigned in June, provided confidential information about a search warrant to William Neal Gay,…
TX: Houston Zoo also impacted by Services Systems Associates breach
The Houston Chronicle reports that the Houston Zoo’s gift shop customers may be impacted by a vendor’s breach that also affected customers at the Detroit Zoo’s gift shop: Houston Zoo officials said on Thursday they discovered a “security breach” involving credit cards at their gift shops. A zoo spokeswoman said the breach was contained to two…
Two US telecom companies to pay $3.5 million for data breach
Grant Gross reports: Two sister mobile and telecom service providers will pay a combined US$3.5 million after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission found that they were storing customers’ personal data on unprotected servers accessible over the Internet. TerraCom and YourTel America failed to adequately protect the personal information of more than 300,000 customers, the FCC…
OPM revises estimate on 2nd breach; new total is 21.5 million affected
OPM has issued an updated statement on its lousy infosecurity two recently detected breaches. It reads, in part: OPM recently discovered two cyber-security incidents that have impacted the data of Federal government employees, contractors, and others: In April 2015, OPM discovered that the personnel data of 4.2 million current and former Federal government employees had…
Theft of prescription bottles during riots results in breach notifications
There was a lot of media attention last month when Rite Aid disclosed that it was notifying customers whose prescriptions with personal and Rx information were stolen during the Baltimore riots in April. Flying somewhat lower under the media radar, however, was the fact that CVS similarly started notifying its customers later in June. The…