Rishika Dugyala reports: Evanston will provide free, year-long identity theft insurance and credit monitoring to employees whose tax information was accidentally revealed in the mail. Marty Lyons, Evanston’s chief financial officer, told members of City Council’s Administration and Public Works Committee on Monday that in addition to the employees’ social security numbers being displayed through…
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GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Asks Hillary Whether ‘Guccifer’ Hacked Emails
Newsmax reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley has asked Hillary Clinton if she knew whether her emails were hacked by “Guccifer” — the noted Romanian who first revealed that the former secretary of state had used a private server. In a letter Tuesday to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, the Iowa Republican referenced a “Meet…
More details emerge on Florida Dept of Health Palm Beach County breach
As reported yesterday, more than 1,000 patients have been notified of a breach involving Florida DOH – Palm Beach County. DataBreaches.net has obtained some a few additional details. According to Timothy O’Connor, Public Health Communication Manager, Florida Department of Health – Palm Beach County, agents from the Justice Department first contacted the DOH in mid-February with a list and…
Former Energy Department worker sentenced in email ‘spear-phishing’ attempt
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…
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,…