This is not be the first time the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has apparently had a data security incident, and it certainly not the largest breach the state has ever experienced, but it appears that TxDOT’s portal for the certified payroll system for contractors has been hacked. Two posts by one individual appeared over…
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Fraudster who hacked SUNY Plattsburgh accounts gets 9 ¼ year prison sentence
Robert Gavin reports: A federal judge sentenced Michael P. Fish to 9 ¼ years in prison Friday, saying he depravedly hacked into the accounts of dozens of unsuspecting female students at SUNY Plattsburgh, stole their private photos and sold the images on the internet. With his family watching on a courtroom bench, the 26-year-old Fish sat in…
Immediate care facility in Chicago hacked in December. Do patients know? (UPDATE1)
Approximately 43,000 patients of an immediate care facility and its associated primary care practice in Chicago may or may not know it yet, but threat actors gained access to protected health information in December and proceeded to remove more than 500 GB of files between December and May 10. Or so the threat actors claim….
Update: More than 90,000 South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach
Rory McLaren reports: South Australia’s Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a cyber attack last year. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told parliament on Wednesday a “forensic review” by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) uncovered the additional people that had had their personal data stolen, in addition to the 80,000 employees announced…
OH: Shaker Heights City School District discloses hacking incident
Shaker Heights City School District in Ohio has notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office and the Montana Attorney General’s Office of a data security incident. The incident was discovered on January 30, 2022, but the investigation revealed that it had begun as early as September 1, 2021. Data were exfiltrated as part of the incident….
How to Fight Foreign Hackers With Civil Litigation
Kellen Dwyer, Kim Peretti, and Emily Skahill of Alston & Bird write: The Department of Justice dealt a blow to global cybercrime on April 6 with the takedown of a massive botnet controlled by “Sandworm”—the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) unit responsible for the 2017 NotPetya attack, among others. This operation reflects the…