Meredith Shamburger reports: Several East Texas school districts have been affected by a computer security breach, with students’ personal information potentially being compromised, according to a notice from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Affected school districts include New Diana ISD, Ore City ISD, Gilmer ISD, Gladewater ISD, Harleton ISD, Harrison County Juvenile Services, Karnack ISD,…
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Patients at UAB Medicine clinic affected by possible data breach
Erin Edgemon reports: Patients of the UAB Viral Hepatitis Clinic may have had their protected health information exposed during a Oct. 25 data breach, UAB Medicine released late Thursday morning. The 652 patients affected were notified of the incident by letter, the university hospital said. Read more on AL.com.
Senate GOP campaign arm stole donor data from House Republicans
Politico reports: Staffers for Senate Republicans’ campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system, three sources with knowledge of the breach told POLITICO. The unauthorized raid on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s data created a behind-the-scenes rift…
New NSA leak exposes Red Disk, the Army’s failed intelligence system
Zack Whittaker reports: The contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to a division of the National Security Agency have been left online. The virtual disk image contains over 100 gigabytes of data from an Army intelligence project, codenamed “Red Disk.” The disk image belongs to the US Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, known…
Canadian hacker enlisted by Russian FSB to hack Yahoo in 2014 pleads guilty
SAN FRANCISCO – Karim Baratov, a/k/a “Kay,” a/k/a Karim Taloverov, a/k/a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, pleaded guilty today to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch; Acting Assistant Attorney General Dana J. Boente of the U.S. Justice…
U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers Who Work at Internet Security Firm for Hacking Three Corporations for Commercial Advantage
An indictment was unsealed yesterday against Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, all of whom are Chinese nationals and residents of China, for computer hacking, theft of trade secrets, conspiracy and identity theft directed at U.S. and foreign employees and computers of three corporate victims in the financial, engineering and technology industries between 2011…