Rick Earle reports: An international hacking scheme started and ended in western Pennsylvania. It was one of the largest and most sophisticated hacking schemes ever devised, and a local school district ended up in the middle of the investigation. Target 11′s Rick Earle discovered that the thieves tried to make off with $990,000 from the Sharon…
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Don’t expect a speedy trial date in the case of the alleged member of thedarkoverlord
DataBreaches.net continues to monitor the court docket in the case of Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” an alleged member of thedarkoverlord. As I’ve reported previously, Wyatt, a U.K. citizen who was extradited to the U.S. to stand trial here, is not charged with actually hacking any of the victim entities in a case filed in…
Data breach exposes Altice employee, Optimum customer information
James T. Madore reports: A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former employees and a small number of customers, the company said. Altice, the provider of Optimum cable television and internet services, said in…
Chinese Military Personnel Charged with Computer Fraud, Economic Espionage and Wire Fraud for Hacking into Credit Reporting Agency Equifax
Statement by the U.S. Department of Justice today: A federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment last week charging four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with hacking into the computer systems of the credit reporting agency Equifax and stealing Americans’ personal data and Equifax’s valuable trade secrets. The nine-count indictment alleges…
Ranked: The World’s 20 Greatest Hackers
Davey Winder writes: I asked cybersecurity experts to name the hackers who have had the biggest impact, good or bad, across the years. This is what they said. Read the list on Forbes.
Educational Enrichment Systems, Inc. – Notice Of Data Breach
Educational Enrichment Systems, Inc. (“EES”) partners with school districts and agencies to provide preschool services to children. THis week, they issued a press release about a data security incident. As seen on their website: Educational Enrichment Systems, Inc. (“EES”) is providing notice of a data privacy event that may have affected certain personal information. The…