Matthew Goldstein and Nicole Perlroth report: When it comes to defending a large company against an online attack, sometimes luck and timing can mean as much as spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on computer security. The broad attack this summer on JPMorgan Chase, which compromised information for 76 million households and seven…
Category: Hack
Update: Tutor in Corona del Mar High grade-hacking scandal arrested at LAX
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog. On October 6, Sean Emery reported: A tutor at the center of an alleged grade-changing scandal at Corona del Mar High School was arrested Monday when police say he returned to Southern California after fleeing the country. Timothy Lance Lai, 29, was taken into…
USIS’s late notification? (updated)
Readers may recall that US Investigations Services, LLC, the contractor who conducted personnel background checks for the Department of Homeland Security, detected a hack in June. The breach affected 27,000 DHS employees. For some reason, USIS is now first sending a copy of a notification letter to the California Attorney General’s web site and to the New…
Pirate Bay Founder Convicted on Hacking Charges; Sentenced to 3.5 Years
Following up on a news story posted yesterday: Over on Wired, Kim Zetter has additional details on the trial and conviction of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottrid Svartholm Warg.
Update on Lewisburg Area School District breach
An update to this breach post. PA HomePage reports: The district has confirmed that student names, school district ID numbers, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and social security numbers from the school’s food service account were accessed through the school’s network. Read more on PA HomePage. In partial response, the district has stopped including…
PA: Data Security Breach at Lewisburg Area School District
Nikki Krize reports: Lewisburg Area School District officials discovered this week that someone got into a data file with all that private information about students. Buffalo Valley Regional Police say there is a suspect and he is a student in the Lewisburg Area School District. District officials would not confirm if the student has been…