Rebecca Harshbarger reports: A cyberattack shut down a website for the NYPD captains union, targeting it with malware, union officials said. Hackers from the group Anonymous, which supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and recently started an online war with ISIS, corrupted the website of the Captain Endowment Association on Friday. […] Richter wrote that…
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ISIS hackers post names and addresses of 100 service members, call for jihad against them
Jason Molinet reports: Islamic State hackers have posted the personal details of 100 U.S. service members they claim took part in the bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan – and called on homegrown radicals to strike back. The group calling itself Islamic State Hacking Division allegedly gathered the dossier from…
Speech Therapist Guilty of Health Care Fraud
Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud in relation to a health care fraud scheme that billed Tricare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas more than $3.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rabon…
Despite Wave Of Data Breaches, Official Says Patient Privacy Isn’t Dead
Charles Ornstein of Pro Publica talked with Jocelyn Samuels, director of OCR. You can read his interview on ProPublica.org. Pretty much everything they touched on has been discussed numerous times on PHIprivacy.net, so you may not find anything new in the interview if you were a regular reader of PHIprivacy.net, but I suppose it’s still reassuring…
CA: Tutor in Corona Del Mar grade-changing scandal faces more hacking charges
The case of the tutor involved in hacking Corona Del Mar High School to change students’ grades is like a soap opera. Now AP reports that the tutor, Timothy Lance Lai, faces an additional 16 charges of computer access and fraud. Prosecutors say Lai pleaded not guilty to the new charges. A message was left for Lai’s…
Accused Russian hacker should pay defense cost, prosecutors say
Mike Carter reports: Federal prosecutors have taken the rare step of challenging the appointment of publicly funded lawyers to represent accused Russian hacker Roman Seleznev and have asked a judge to order Seleznev to reimburse the government for his defense. […] As proof, the government provided the court with photographs of stacks of cash and…