Travis Gettys reports: The online hacker collective Anonymous dumped a trove of personal information online belonging to alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan. The “hacktivist” group claims to have taken control this week of the @KuKluxKlanUSA Twitter account in an ongoing dispute between the two groups over Wilson’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen and the resulting…
Category: U.S.
Oops: After Threatening Hacker With 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor
Andy Greenberg reports: Thanks in part to America’s ill-defined hacking laws, prosecutors have enormous discretion to determine a hacker defendant’s fate. But in one young Texan’s case in particular, the Department of Justice stretched prosecutorial overreach to a new extreme: about 440 years too far. Last week, prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas reached…
CO: New skimmer device discovered at RTD station; several victims say money missing from accounts
Marshall Zelinger reports: RTD [Regional Transportation District] customer credit card information has been stolen with the use of a skimmer that the transit company didn’t know about until recently. Read more on TheDenverChannel.
VA: Security breach reveals personal data on Prince George’s school employees
Ovetta Wiggins reports: The Prince George’s County Public School System notified employees on Friday evening of a possible security breach involving employees’ personal data. […] Davis said a report that contained employees’ social security numbers, birth dates and employee identification numbers was emailed outside of the school system. A spokeswoman for the system said the…
Gundersen sentenced for his role in scheme to hack 14 financial networks and DoD payroll system
Associated Press reports an update to an indictment noted on this blog in May: A New York City man has been sentenced to about 3 1/2 years in prison for his role in an international cybercrime ring that hacked into the computers of more than a dozen financial institutions and the U.S. military’s payroll service….
FTC and Wyndham to Mediate Dispute Over FTC Data-Security Authority
Meena Harris writes: Earlier this week, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas directed the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts to seek mediation to resolve their landmark dispute over whether the FTC has the authority to regulate companies’ data-security practices. As we’ve previously reported, the FTC alleged that Wyndham violated Section 5…