Tom Winter and Corky Siemaszko report: A suspected hacker from Massachusetts landed in hot water Wednesday a day after he was rescued at sea by a Disney cruise ship. Martin Gottesfeld was arrested by the FBI in Miami and charged with conspiracy for allegedly helping to launch a computer attack on Boston Children’s Hospital as part…
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British teenager arrested for ‘trying to hack into FBI computer networks’
Has another member of CWA been arrested? It sounds like it, but law enforcement hasn’t said so definitively. Jamie Bullen reports: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Glasgow for allegedly trying to hack into FBI computer networks. Police Scotland questioned the boy earlier this week watched on by FBI agents flown in from the…
Judge Rejects Key Defense in Anthem Data-Breach Suits
Ross Todd reports: U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s first major ruling in data-breach lawsuits against major health insurer Anthem Inc. didn’t do much to clarify how the litigation itself will ultimately play out. […] In her decision, Koh addressed for the first time the question of whether the loss of personal information constitutes harm under…
Judge allows some claims over Anthem data breach to go forward
Reuters is reporting: A federal judge has dismissed several claims but allowed others to go forward in a multidistrict litigation against health insurer Anthem Inc over a data breach last year that compromised about 79 million customers’ personal information. Law360 also covers the ruling, but both stories are behind paywalls, and I haven’t read the ruling…
Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) denies breach (UPDATED)
Yesterday, I noted a report on Softpedia claiming that Anonymous had hacked and leaked data from Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited. It appears the company is denying that they’ve had any breach. Athuman Mtulya reports: However, TTCL Public Relations Manager Nicodemus Mushi told The Citizen yesterday that they had not traced any breach of their systems and had…
Hacking Team data hacked and leaked online still confidential: Singapore Court
K.C. Vijayan reports: The High Court has ruled in a novel case that confidential documents hacked from a computer and posted online remain confidential despite being in the public domain. The court found in the test case that e-mails between lawyer and client leaked online by a third party but obtained by the defence was…