November 23 — A jury yesterday voted to convict Guy Cuomo a/k/a “John Monaco,” age 54, of Frederick, Maryland, of computer fraud, misuse of a social security number, aggravated identity theft and related conspiracy charges for his role in a scheme to sell information unlawfully obtained from the New York State Department of Labor and…
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Little Rock officer arrested for ‘unauthorized access’ of personal information
THV11 reports: According to the Little Rock Police Department, Officer Miles McWayne has been arrested for “unauthorized access” of the personal information of a citizen. The person filed a police report with the department in August after the reported incident took place in May. McWayne was officially charged with the misdemeanor of accessing the information…
Montana high school hit by ransomware
Another day, another attack on public schools to report. Today’s report concerns Beaverhead County High School in Montana, which was reportedly hit by Avos Locker. The threat actors added the listing to their dark web leak site on November 20, but do not state when the attack actually occurred. As proof of claim, Avos Locker…
Update: Astoria notifying 940,000 consumers after breach earlier this year
There is an update to one of the most controversial data breaches of 2021. Mark Francis of Holland & Knight, who are external counsel for Astoria Company LLC, notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that Astoria is notifying 940,000 consumers about a breach that occurred in January, 2021. The breach became controversial, in part, because…
Three months after ransomware attack and two months after data was dumped, UHC has yet to notify patients in writing
On September 25, DataBreaches.net reported on a ransomware attack suffered by United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley (UHC). BleepingComputer had also reported on the incident the day before. Neither this site nor BleepingComputer had been able to get a statement from UHC at the time, but it was clear from the data dumped by…
GoDaddy security breach exposed WordPress data of 1.2 Mn users
Reuters reports: Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc said on Monday email addresses of up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had been exposed in an unauthorised third-party access. The company said the incident was discovered on November 17 and the third-party accessed the system using a compromised password. Read more on Financial…