The Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) recently discovered that an unauthorized party or parties gained access to the Form 990 Online and e-Postcard filing systems for nonprofit organizations. The intruder or intruders retrieved email addresses, usernames, passwords, first and last names, IP addresses, phone numbers, and addresses and names of nonprofits. This…
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St. Mary Church food pantry computer stolen in Lorain, Ohio
May really bad karma teach this thief a lesson. Ron Vidika reports: A computer that was used to keep track of the names of family members receiving food at the monthly food pantry and community lunch at St. Mary Church in Lorain was stolen in broad daylight Feb. 23, the church’s pastor said. The theft…
Legal liabilities in recent data breach extend far beyond Anthem
Joseph Conn reports: The potential legal liabilities from the unprecedented breach of some 80 million individuals’ records at Indianapolis-based insurance giant Anthem could entangle nearly 60 health insurance plans from Hawaii to Puerto Rico, legal experts say. More than 50 class-action lawsuits related to the breach already have been filed in less than a month. The plans could find…
FBI close to IDing Anthem hacker
Cory Bennett reports: The FBI is close to naming the cyberattacker behind the Anthem data breach. Whether it tells the public, though, remains to be seen. “We’re close already,” said Robert Anderson, who leads the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, during a Tuesday roundtable with reporters. “But we’re not going to say it…
$3 Million Reward Offered for GameOver Zeus Botnet Mastermind
Today in Washington, D.C., the U.S. State Department, the Department of Justice, and the FBI announced a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, currently one of the FBI’s most wanted—and most prolific—cyber criminals, for his alleged involvement in a major cyber racketeering enterprise….
Lawsuit filed over Shorter University data theft
And so it begins… A potential class-action lawsuit against Shorter University has been filed by a former student who became a victim of identity theft/tax refund fraud following the theft of records last year. Reports of identity theft related to tax refund fraud started emerging in February, and as of last week, there were over 30 reports….