Catalin Cimpanu reports: Blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a security breach in 2014, according to multiple hackers who are now selling and freely trading the company’s user database on the dark web and on hacking forums, ZDNet has learned. For some, this might be old news. Rumors about a LiveJournal security breach have been circulating online for…
Category: U.S.
KS: ‘In the hands of cyber criminals’: Man sues WSU over hack of decades-old student data
Amy Renee Leiker reports a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site: A December data breach that jeopardized the personal information of thousands of current and former Wichita State University students — some of whom attended the school decades ago — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. Michael Bahnmaier of Wichita…
Class-action lawsuit filed against state contractor over Ohio Department of Job and Family Services data leak
No surprise here…. ABC6 in Ohio reports: A class-action lawsuit has been filed in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, alleging Deloitte—the contractor the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) hired to create and manage the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance system—acted “negligently and recklessly,” leading to last week’s data leak. Read more on…
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools e-mail hacked by Rick-Rollers
Shawn Krest reports: The email system for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools was used to send a prank email to all Chapel Hill-Carrboro students and staff members on Wednesday. The school confirmed the attack in an email Wednesday evening. “Someone hacked our district email account and sent a phony message to all staff and students,” the…
Trump’s Press Secretary Appears to Have Exposed President’s Banking Information
Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
Five months after they were notified of a data breach, Prime Communication notifies 8,000 employees
Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees. The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…