WPTV reports: Customers of the City of Lake Worth Utilities who utilized the online credit card payment option to pay their bill may have experienced a possible breach of their credit card information. Lake Worth Utilities is encouraging all customers to check their statements for any fraudulent transactions that occurred between August 28 and October…
Category: Government Sector
Five years later, Italian police identify hacker behind 2013 NASA hacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 25-year-old Italian man pleaded guilty this week for defacing NASA websites and 60 other Italian government sites back in 2013. The suspect, identified only by his initials of Z.R., was a member of the “Master Italian Hackers Team” that claimed responsibility for the hacks at the time on social media. Italian…
IE: Cork local investigated over hacking of council’s parking app
The Journal reports: The Garda Computer Crime Unit has been drafted in to probe how 5,000 people’s personal information collected by Cork City Council had been illegally accessed by a hacker. Detectives in that garda unit are investigating the breach which saw thousands of people who used a parking app potentially having their data stolen….
“AlfabetoVirtual” Pleads Guilty To Hacking Websites For The Combating Terrorism Center At West Point And The New York City Comptroller
There’s an update to the case involving Billy Anderson, aka AlfabetoVirtual, who was pretty busy defacing sites for a year or more. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York earlier this week: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BILLY RIBEIRO ANDERSON, a/k/a “Anderson…
Texas congresswoman fires intern arrested for data leak
AP reports: A Houston Democratic congresswoman has fired an unpaid intern after he was arrested by the U.S. Capitol police for allegedly posting online the home addresses of Republican senators backing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Read more on HickoryRecord. FoxNews has additional details of concern: A Democratic congressional aide accused of publishing…
St. Petersburg timeline on Click2Gov raises questions as to whether the vendor was proactive or not
I have commented on the Click2Gov breach a few times — mostly wondering aloud why so many customers do not seem to have been made aware that they needed to update immediately, etc. Both RBS and FireEye have both discussed the Click2Gov incident in more depth. But now look at this disclosure from St….