We live in confusing times when those whom society brands as “criminals” are more ethical than their victims. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes: Back in July of last year, the controversial government spying and hacking tool seller Hacking Team was hacked itself by an outside attacker. The breach made headlines worldwide, but no one knew much about the perpetrator or…
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Atique Orthodontics, P.A Notifies Patients of Security Incident
SAN ANTONIO, April 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Atique Orthodontics, P.A. (AOPA) is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving unauthorized access to a computer in its office. Between February 29th, 2016 and March 30th, 2016, an unauthorized outside party accessed an AOPA office computer that could have led to a server that included patient names, dates of births,…
Fappening Forum Users Hit by Data Breach, Malvertising, and Then by Ransomware
Some might say that there’s almost some poetic justice in this, but Catalin Cimpanu reports: Users of The Fappening Forum, a place where aficionados once converged to share and collect images from the infamous celebrity nude photos leak, have had their personal details leak this week during a data breach. There is no information available…
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…
Journalist gets two years in prison for hacking L.A.Times computers
Denny Walsh reports: Matthew Keys, whose rapid rise as a social media news reporter began and ended in Sacramento, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison on a jury’s verdict in October that he conspired with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times’ website and alter a news story. At…
UK: 6,000 staff join data breach lawsuit against Morrisons
Incident response is so important, and Morrison’s did not do a good job, as I’ve commented before. Now Tom Reeve reports: Nearly 6000 current and former staff of retail giant Morrisons have signed up to join a combined lawsuit against the company following a massive data breach two years ago. According to the law firm…