Another hactivist incident. Lucian Constantin reports: Members of the Anonymous collective have broken into the network of a security firm and exposed its internal communications, after it claimed to know the identity of the group’s founders. Last week, Aaron Barr, the head of an information security firm called HBGary Federal, told the Financial Times that…
Category: Hack
Follow-up to RBS Breach: Russian hacker admits guilt in $10 million cyber theft x
Reuters reports: A Russian man has pleaded guilty in court to stealing $10 million from former Royal Bank of Scotland division World Pay in 2008 by hacking into accounts, RIA News reported on Monday. Investigators said 27-year-old Yevgeny Anikin was a member of an international hacking ring that copied client account information and boosted the…
LA: Teen charged with computer crimes
A Deville teen was arrested Jan. 29 and was charged with several computer crimes, said Rapides Parish Sheriff Chuck Wagner. Christopher Anthony Dauzat Jr., 17, was arrested by the CyberCrimes section of the Rapides Sheriff’s Office Detective Division and charged with computer tampering, computer fraud, cyberstalking and extortion. The charges stem from the electronic hijacking…
Credit Report Resellers Settle FTC Charges; Security Failures Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information
As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ personal information, three companies whose business is reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle FTC charges that they did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed computer hackers to access that data. The settlements require the companies…
Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay breach affecting 156,000 included Social Security Numbers as well as PHI
Now that I have additional information on a hacking incident involving the protected health information (PHI) of 156,000 patients of the Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay, it is clear that this breach belongs on this site. I had previously noted it on PHIprivacy.net on January 29 after it appeared on HHS’s breach tool. At…
Texas Children’s Hospital informed they may have had security breach
On December 29, Texas Children’s Hospital was notified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office that its Accounts Payable system may have suffered a security breach. Names and Social Security Numbers of some employees and vendors who received checks between 1999 and 2011 may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party and the information…