There’s an update to the case of a man accused of hacking the human resources databases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center starting in 2014 and stealing the data of 65,000 employees. Many of the employees became victims of identity theft for tax fraud. Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of…
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FSB NKTsKI: Foreign ‘cyber mercenaries’ breached Russian federal agencies
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Foreign hackers have breached and stolen information from Russian federal executive bodies, the Russian government said in a report published last week. The attacks were identified in 2020. They were detailed in a joint report authored by Rostelecom-Solar, a cybersecurity division of Russian telecom giant Rostelecom, and the National Coordination Center for…
U.S. Government Seeks Information About Victims Of December 2017 EtherDelta Hack
U.S. Government Seeks Information About Victims Of December 2017 EtherDelta Hack Conspiracy to defraud victims of cryptocurrency exchange platform resulted in theft of at least $1.4 million, prompting government to call for victims to come forward May 20 – SAN FRANCISCO – The Office of the United States Attorney and the United States Secret Service…
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
Andy Greenberg reports: AMID ALL THE sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company’s network in early 2011, the experience that sticks with him most vividly all these years later is the moment he caught up with them. Or almost did. It was a spring evening, he says, three days—maybe four, time had…
Despite an alert from NYS DFS, some insurance companies with “instant quote” portals were victimized
On February 16, the NYS Department of Financial Services issued a cybersecurity fraud alert involving public-facing web sites where consumers could request “instant quotes” for car insurance or other products. The alert warned insurers that private information used to prefill requests was being stolen and misused for pandemic unemployment benefits fraud. At the time, they…
Health Plan of San Joaquin notifying more than 420,000 of email hack last year
On or about October 12, Health Plan of San Joaquin (HPSJ) learned of unusual activity affecting its email system. On October 23, 2020, the investigation determined that an unknown person(s) had accessed a number of HPSJ employee email accounts between September 26, 2020 and October 12, 2020. Yesterday, HPSJ sent out notifications and notified the…