Todd Bookman reports: The state’s Department of Health and Human Services says personal information for as many as 15,000 clients has been breached. Names, addresses, social security numbers and Medicaid ID numbers were stolen, with some information posted on social media sites. The agency says a patient at the state-run psychiatric hospital in Concord accessed…
Category: Government Sector
PBSO deputy tied to $283,000 identity-theft scam
Mike Stucka reports: The Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy arrested Thursday on federal identity-theft charges is tied to a longtime scamster who pleaded guilty this year to a $283,00 identity theft, as well as being part of a $387,000 fraud to rent dozens of houses that weren’t his. A Homeland Security agent’s affidavit against deputy Frantz Felisma, 42,…
Thai Police Arrests Nine Anonymous Hackers for Role in #OpSingleGateway Attacks
I had noted some of the #OpSingleGateway attacks last week, and it seems there’s a new development. Catalin Cimpanu reports that nine teenagers have been arrested: Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said more arrests would follow, as officials are cracking down on local hacktivists. Read more on BleepingComputer, especially if you’re not…
TH: Five hacktivists held for attacks on websites
At least five suspects have been detained for alleged involvement in the latest hacking of government and security agency websites, some of which were knocked out of service temporarily due to cyberattacks, National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) sources have said. The crackdown is expected to lead to the round-up of about 100 people believed…
FBI probes FDIC hack linked to China’s military – sources
Dustin Volz and Jason Lange report: The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China’s military, people with knowledge of the matter said. The security breach, in which hackers gained access to dozens…
GA: Forsyth County investigates information breach
Mark Woolsey reports: A security breach at the Forsyth County Tax Commissioners office led to the inadvertent release Social Security numbers of nearly 20,000 residents. Tax commissioner Matthew Ledbetter said in a letter to those impacted that the information was mistakenly included in a data file downloaded by two outside parties. Both had authorized access…