Dan Kelly reports: Leesport residents are being advised to put a hold on their bank accounts after the Leesport borough tax collector learned her computer system had been hacked. The borough issued a Code Red Alert via email to residents and put a message on the borough’s internet home page advising borough taxpayers that tax…
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IT vendor fined after data of 47,800 students, parents and staff of Singapore schools hacked
Nicole Chang reports: IT vendor Learnaholic has been fined S$60,000 after the personal data of more than 47,000 students, parents and staff of various schools were hacked. The organisation provided services including attendance-taking and e-learning systems to schools in Singapore under a contract with the Ministry of Education. However, lapses in its security arrangements led…
Russian Hacking Group Evil Corp. Charged By Federal Prosecutors In Alleged Bank Fraud
Bobby Allyn reports: Federal law enforcement officials have announced criminal charges against two Russian nationals who operate a hacking organization known as Evil Corp., a group officials say is responsible for one of the most sweeping banking fraud schemes in the past decade. The criminal indictments were unsealed in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Lincoln, Nebraska, against Maksim Yakubets, 32,…
CO: Sunrise Community Health Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
Sunrise Community Health in Colorado has posted a notice concerning a recent data security incident. From their notice: A recent incident at Sunrise Community Health (“Sunrise”) may affect the privacy of certain information. Sunrise is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of this information. However, Sunrise is providing notification to individuals whose information was…
Dutch politician faces three years in prison for hacking iCloud accounts and leaking nudes
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch prosecutors have asked a judge for a three-year prison sentence for a local politician who doubled as a hacker and breached the personal iCloud accounts of more than 100 women, stealing and then leaking sexually explicit photos and videos online. Read more on ZDNet.
Loudoun Medical Group D/B/A Comprehensive Sleep Care Center notifies patients after employee email account compromise
Loudoun Medical Group d/b/a Comprehensive Sleep Care Center (CSCC) in Virginia issued a press release yesterday. According to their timeline, on or around June 19, they became aware of unusual activity in an employee’s email account. Their investigation subsequently determined that unauthorized access to the one account occurred between June 15 and June 19. The…