A Georgia man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges he was part of an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County more than $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. George S. James, 49, Brookhaven, Ga., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. In his plea, James admitted that on Oct. 7, 2016, Sedgwick County…
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Dozens of Fresno Unified employees affected by data breach
Veronica Miracle reports: Three Fresno suspects, accused of living off other people’s money– investigators said they found Andrew Clement, Katie Whala, and Randall McKinney with troves of stolen personal information last month. […] “There was stolen mail, there were checks, there was a spreadsheet from the Unified School District– so this wasn’t just one item,”…
Massive WWE Leak Exposes 3 Million Wrestling Fans’ Addresses, Ethnicities And More
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Pakistani Man Sentenced for Laundering Millions in Telecom Hacking Scheme
A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…
FL: Notice from Baptist Medical Center South to EEG Patients Regarding a Missing Hard Drive
Baptist Medical Center South (“Baptist South”) is committed to protecting the security and con dentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On May 18, 2017, Baptist South learned that a backup hard drive used for EEG testing was missing from an EEG room. We immediately began…
TN: Ransomware hits one Tennessee city’s emergency services
AP reports: Two branches of a Tennessee city’s emergency services have been hit by ransomware as part of a worldwide malware attack that began in May. […] Norville says most of the affected data is not retrievable, and it is unclear if any significant files have been lost. Two file servers and 19 computers within…