Jim Halley reports: Coaches for the football team at Braden River (Bradenton, Fla.), which finished 9-2 last season and advanced to the second round of state 7A playoffs, were caught using a college Hudl account to access opponents’ game and practice videos. As first reported by The Sarasota Herald, a Hudl investigation determined that the…
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Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225,000 in Credit
Jacey Fortin reports: Hundreds of prison inmates in Idaho found a way to add hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of credit to their personal accounts, officials discovered this month. The prisoners were not inflating their bank accounts, but rather their JPay accounts. JPay is a service that inmates can use to communicate with the…
Southern College of Optometry notifies students whose loan information was hacked
The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…
Long Beach Port terminal hit by ransomware attack
Mark Edward Nero reports: The China Ocean Shipping Co. Terminal at the Port of Long Beach was hit by a cyberattack on Tuesday, July 24. A spokesman for the Shanghai-based company, which acknowledged the ransomware attack Tuesday, said that the company’s operations outside the United States were not affected. As of Tuesday afternoon, COSCO’s website…
PA: State Dept. of Corrections notifies employees, inmates of online security incident with third-party vendor
Fox43 reports: A “security incident” at a third-party vendor may have compromised the personal information of employees, inmates and others involved with the state Department of Corrections, the DOC announced Monday in a press release. The DOC says it has sent letters to those who may have been affected by the incident, which occurred on…
If you shopped at these 15 stores in the last year, your data might have been stolen
Dennis Green and Mary Hanbury report: At least 15 separate security breaches occurred at retailers from January 2017 until now. Many of them were caused by flaws in payment systems, either online or in stores. Data breaches are on the rise for both retailers and other businesses. A recent report published by cybersecurity firm Shape…