Levi Pulkkinen reports: A federal grand jury has indicted three Seattle men accused of hacking the wireless networks of more than a dozen businesses to steal money and employees’ personal information. Also claiming the trio was behind 41 burglaries, federal prosecutors contend Joshuah A. Witt, Brad E. Lowe and John E. Griffin used the fruits…
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Intel officials’ emails posted after hack of cybersecurity group
Michael Isikoff reports: The names and email addresses of hundreds of U.S. intelligence officials — including some senior officials in the Obama Administration — have been posted on an anti-secrecy website after computer hackers allegedly swiped them from the internal membership list of a prestigious national security organization. The apparent cyberattack on the Intelligence and…
CA: State Assembly computer system breached
Associated Press reports: More than 50 employees of the state Assembly — including some lawmakers — have been warned that their personal information might have been obtained by a computer hacker. Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine, whose office oversees the Legislative Data Center, would not say how many lawmakers were affected. She said Friday that officials…
Bright House Networks notifies customers of breach
Steve Ragan learned of a data breach at Bright House Networks the hard way – by getting a breach disclosure notice as a customer. Steve describes the September 2011 letter: “Recently, we were made aware that an unauthorized source gained access to our servers and, as a result, historical customer data back to June 22,…
Damages From Hannaford Bros. Data Breach Dominate 1st Circuit Debate
Sheri Qualters writes: A debate about the damages available to some to 4.2 million customers of the Hannaford Brothers Co. supermarket company whose financial information was compromised during a data breach dominated an oral argument at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Sept. 8 hearing in Anderson v. Hannaford Brothers Co. concerned the appeal of…
WI, TN: Up to 40,000 credit and debit cards exposed in data breach
Credit and debit cards used at Vacationland Vendors arcade games in Wisconsin Dells may be affected by a data breach. Vacationland Vendors, Inc., a supplier of arcade equipment and vending machines to businesses, announced Monday that up to 40,000 cards used at its Wisconsin Dells and Sevierville, Tenn., arcades may have been exposed, according to…