CORRECTION: I picked this up incorrectly as Pittsburgh in PA. A kind reader pointed out my error. This was Pittsburg in Kansas! Corrected Post: The City of Pittsburg hasn’t disclosed how many former and current employees had their W-2 data stolen in a phishing scam on January 30, but I’m betting it’s more than a…
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NL: Youth, 18, arrested in probe into last week’s tax office cyber attack
An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…
British hacking suspect wins appeal against extradition to U.S.
Color me surprised. Owen Bowcott reports that Lauri Love won his appeal (ruling) and will not be extradited to the U.S. to face hacking charges here. The court accepted both of the main arguments advanced by Love’s lawyers that there was no reason he could not be tried in England and that he might suffer…
Unalaska residents’ data accidentally exposed online
I’ll be honest: I had never heard of Unalaska at all. Now I’ve heard of it twice in the past three months. The first time, it was a breach involving their Iliuliuk Family and Health Services clinic. This time, it’s a data leak. KUCB reports: The City of Unalaska could be on the hook for…
Indian police arrest criminals selling and trading biometric Aadhaar data
By now, my regular readers have likely all seen reports of data breaches where biometric data were stolen or hacked, such as the OPM breach where 5.6 million employees’ fingerprints were also acquired by suspected state actors or state-sponsored hackers. But a news report out of India shows how biometric data may be part of…
Top secret files found in locked file cabinet sold in second-hand shop
What’s possibly worse than leaving files with personally identifiable information in filing cabinets that you’re selling as surplus? How about leaving top secret and classified documents on the workings of five governments? Oh yeah, it happened in Australia.