Jeff Mordock reports: To catch a hacker, sometimes you have to be a hacker. But when it’s the FBI doing the hacking, civil liberties groups get worried. The agency’s revelation this week that it joined a computer botnet attack piggybacking on the malware’s signal to track its activities has raised new questions about what is…
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Hacker Who Stole $5 Million By SIM Swapping Gets 10 Years in Prison
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A college student who stole more than $5 million in cryptocurrency by hijacking the phone numbers of around 40 victims pleaded guilty and accepted a plea deal of 10 years in prison, Motherboard has learned. Joel Ortiz accepted the plea deal last week, Erin West, the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara…
IN: Thousands Of Patients’ Information Compromised In Data Breach
Sierra Hignite reports: A data breach at Valley Professionals Health Care may have affected all seven of its health care locations, including their mobile site. Plus, personal information from thousands of patients has been compromised. It started when an employee received an email in late November that they believed to be from another health care organization…
PA: Some Easton Hospital patients may get compensated for data breach
Anthony Salamone reports an update to a 2014 breach: An unspecified number of Easton Hospital patients whose data were stolen by hackers in 2014 might be eligible for some compensatation. How much? It depends. Lehigh Valley residents have begun receiving notices about a court settlement involving Easton Hospital’s former owner, Community Health Systems, over the…
ANA Suffers Phishing Attack, Possible Theft Of Data
Wendy Davis reports: The Association of National Advertisers suffered a phishing attack last year that may have resulted in the theft of employee data, including names and social security numbers, MediaPost has learned. The ANA said in a January 24 letter to former employees that it learned last October of a “possible data security incident.”…
MA: Concord police erroneously expose citizens’ personal info
Aaron Curtis reports: The Concord Police Department is alerting residents to the possible exposure of private citizen’s personal information after the wrong version of the weekly police log was accidentally posted to the town’s website, according to a press release. The log file posted contained the personal information of individuals who reported incidents or were…