Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison for Extortion, Money Laundering, and Obstruction Ex-DEA Agent Used Undercover Status to Pocket More than $700,000 in Bitcoin, Strike Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox SAN FRANCISCO –Carl M. Force was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for extortion, money laundering, and obstruction…
Category: Government Sector
Anonymous hacktivist at center of leaked-secrets campaign speaks in person for the first time about July’s fatal RCMP shooting of a protester
Adrian Humphreys got the interview, and you can read it on National Post. Here’s a snippet: Procastin8r won’t talk about the source of those documents, especially on the record, but he agrees the operation has many different elements, some more successful than others. It makes this operation unique within Anonymous and, he said, it…
Years of poor network security at State predated a hack linked to Russia
Ken Dilanian of AP reports: The State Department was among the worst agencies in the federal government at protecting its computer networks while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary from 2009 to 2013, a situation that continued to deteriorate as John Kerry took office and Russian hackers breached the department’s email system, according to independent audits…
Teen claims he hacked CIA director’s AOL account, posts contact list and files online (Update1)
From the yeah-this-probably-needs-to-be-investigated dept.: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail scandal didn’t stop the head of the CIA from using his own personal AOL account to stash work-related documents, according to a stoner high-school student who claims to have hacked into them. CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret…
NC: DHHS reveals potential Medicaid data breach
WRAL reports that North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services is notifying 1,615 Medicaid patients that a breach of security protocol may have compromised their confidential health information. The breach occurred Aug. 19, when an email with an attached spreadsheet was emailed without encryption to the Granville County Health Department. Although the email was…
Changing ID numbers in wake of Japan Pension Service breach resulted in payment errors
The Japan Pension Service breach was a huge deal in Japan this summer, and it’s still having an impact as attempts to secure pensioners’ information by changing their ID numbers seems to have resulted in some people being overpaid while others were underpaid. Kyodo News reports: The Japan Pension Service mistakenly underpaid and overpaid about…