On February 16, I linked to a story about Palm Beach law enforcement personnel and judges having their personal info posted online. Today, Lance Dixon reports that those whose details were exposed are only first being notified: Miami-Dade County is investigating a breach of privacy that has affected thousands of police officers and other county employees. The personal information…
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Mansueto Ventures hacked, employees of Inc., Fast Company become tax fraud victims
Keith J. Kelly reports: Mansueto Ventures, publisher of Inc. and Fast Company magazines, was the victim of a massive data breach that exposed employees’ wage information and Social Security numbers to hackers. The hackers have already used the illegally obtained information to file fraudulent federal and state tax returns, one worker said. Read more on…
21st Century Oncology Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
Update, March 8: A 21st Century Oncology spokesperson confirmed today to DataBreaches.net that 2.2 million patients were impacted by this breach. Note that this is the second time 21st Century Oncology learned of a data breach from federal authorities. In 2013, this site reported on an incident involving a rogue employee. That incident never appeared on HHS’s breach…
California man hacked CMU student’s account, prosecutors say
Brian Bowling reports: A California college student hacked the student account of a Carnegie Mellon University student to steal her identity and attempt to get credit cards and personal loans in her name, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury indicted Dennis C. Liu, 23, of San Marino, Calif., in May on three counts of…
New Jersey pastor indicted for bribery in case tied to JPMorgan hacking
Nate Raymond reports: A New Jersey pastor was indicted on Thursday for an alleged bribery scheme involving a bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli man linked to cyber attacks on JPMorgan Chase & Co and other companies. Trevon Gross, the pastor and former chairman of the Helping Other People Excel Federal Credit Union of Jackson,…
Operation Wrath takes aim at Russia (updated)
Seen on haveibeenpwned.com: 1,476,783 accounts dumped: In February 2016, the Russian portal and email service KM.RU was the target of an attack which was consequently detailed on Reddit. Allegedly protesting “the foreign policy of Russia in regards to Ukraine”, KM.RU was one of several Russian sites in the breach and impacted almost 1.5M accounts including sensitive personal information….