Spencer S. Hsu reports: A former Energy Department employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison after offering to help a foreign government infiltrate the agency’s computer system to steal nuclear secrets and then attempting an email “spear-phishing” attack in an FBI sting operation. Charles Harvey Eccleston, an environmental scientist formerly employed by the department…
Category: Government Sector
US attorney Bharara set free hacker who led attacks on Turkish gov’t
Ragip Soylu and Yunus Paksoy report: U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, who has been at the top of the agenda recently in Turkey due to his arrest of Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, had prepared an indictment and set free an FBI informant who orchestrated cyberattacks on the Turkish government. Hector Xavier Monsegur, also known as Sabu, was a…
FL Dept. of Health Palm Beach County Notification of Breach
From their public statement today: Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County is issuing a public notice of an unauthorized disclosure and/or use of protected health information pertaining to some clients of its Health Centers. Federal law enforcement officials informed the department they had obtained a list of names, birth dates, social security numbers,…
UK: Former New Addington police sergeant and ex-council officer charged with misusing police records
Tom Matthews reports: A former police sergeant and an ex-Croydon Council officer have been charged with breaching data protection laws after allegations they misused police computer systems to obtain private information. Paul Potter and Alan O’Brien were due to answer the charges at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, but though the case against them was adjourned…
Cyber Justice Team Makes A Statement With Massive Data Leak
I knew if I was patient, Lee J. would analyze the data from this data dump and organize it. Today, RBS reported: On April 6th, a twitter account using the name Cyber Justice Team posted a tweet suggesting a major hack of a Syrian governmental server had taken place and 10GB of data had been leaked as…
Security flaws found in 3 state health insurance websites
AP reports: Federal investigators found significant cybersecurity weaknesses in the health insurance websites of California, Kentucky and Vermont that could enable hackers to get their hands on sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of people, The Associated Press has learned. And some of those flaws have yet to be fixed. Read more on Midland…