Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
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AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…
TN: Police report filed in security breach at State of Franklin Healthcare
NewsChannel 11 reports that at least four employees of State of Franklin Health Care Associates have become victims of ID theft following a breach involving payroll information. The Johnson City Police are investigating. A letter sent to SoFHA employees from CEO Richard Panek on Tuesday said, “I regret to inform you of a recent data…
CA: Private Investigators Indicted for Hacking the Computers of People Opposing Their Clients in Civil Suits
SAN JOSE – Nathan Moser, Peter Siragusa, AKA Bobby Russo, Carlo Pacileo, Trent Williams, and Sumit Gupta, AKA Sumit Vishnoi, were charged with crimes related to a conspiracy to access the e-mail accounts, Skype accounts, and computers of people opposing Moser’s and Siragua’s clients’ in civil lawsuits. The indictment was announced today after it was unsealed…
Defense Contract Management Agency Probes Hack
Brian Krebs reports: The Defense Contract Management Agency, the U.S. federal government entity responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is responding to a suspected cybersecurity breach and has pulled a number of its servers offline while the investigation continues, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. So far, there’s no evidence that any personal…
Attempted hack of Jacksonville Aviation Authority disclosed
WJXT in Florida is reporting (video) that the FBI is actively investigating an attempted hack of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority on November 26, shortly before Thanksgving. In a statement to the news station, JAA indicated that it believes the attack was unsuccessful and will continue to believe so unless it hears otherwise from the FBI, but…