Former Cumming, Georgia, Police Officer Nathan VanBuren has been arraigned after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges, and other information presented in court: In July 2015, VanBuren, in his official capacity as a police officer, responded to a 911 call at a citizen’s home in Cumming,…
Category: Government Sector
FBI chief says Guccifer lied about hacking into Clinton’s email server
Michael Kan reports: A Romanian hacker’s claim that he broke into Hillary Clinton’s private email server in 2013 was a lie, according to the FBI. Marcel Lehel Lazar, also known as Guccifer, has boasted about the breach to various media outlets, saying in May that it had been “easy.” But on Thursday, FBI director James…
Baton Rouge police database ‘hacked’ in retaliation for killing of Alton Sterling
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government’s servers have been “hacked” and 50,000 city police records leaked online including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker named @0x2Taylor claimed responsibility…
California Health Care Facility email gaffe results in notifications
California Health Care Facility, which is part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is notifying an unspecified number of people that their names and Social Security numbers were erroneously emailed to an unauthorized recipient in an attached document on May 2. The erroneous email was subsequently deleted from the server.
UK: Safe in Police hands? New Big Brother Watch report released
Big Brother Watch has released a new report on data protection in the UK police. Some of their key findings for the period June 1, 2011 – December 31, 2015 were that there have been 2,315 breaches in police forces, including: 869 (38%) instances of inappropriate/unauthorised access to information 877 (38%) instances of inappropriate disclosure of data…
Order of Malta breach contains unhashed gov’t credentials
Jeremy Seth Davis reports: A white hat researcher discovered a pair of data breaches in which email and password credentials of government employees were dumped on Pastebin. Hackers dumped almost 4,000 credentials gained during two separate breaches that contained credentials linked to U.S. and Ukrainian government employees. The attackers breached a website affiliated with the…