Kale Williams reports: A former Tesla employee has been indicted on charges of felony computer hacking after a federal investigation found he allegedly broke into his boss’ computer and posted employee evaluations on the Internet, officials said Thursday. Nima Kalbasi, a 28-year-old Canadian, was arrested Aug. 24 as he tried to cross the border from…
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Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton’s Unreleased Private Emails For $500K
RadarOnline reports: Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price tag — a whopping $500,000! Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of…
Heritage Foundation emails, donor info stolen
UPDATE: The data weren’t stolen, but leaked. See this report. Original report: The home page of their web site says, “We keep your information private,” but Heritage Foundation has seemingly joined the ranks of those who failed to keep private information private. Tim Starks reports that the think tank had a data breach this week in which…
Settlement reached in ex-Sony employees’ lawsuit over data breach – lawyers
We won’t have any details until mid-October, but AP reports that lawyers for former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees who sued SPE over a data breach have reached a settlement with their former employer.
WV: Hacker claiming to be part of Islamic State hacks Wayne County Board of Education website, redirects visitors to site promoting terrorism
The State Journal reports: Someone claiming to be part of the Islamic State hacked the Wayne County Board of Education’s website in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, authorities report. West Virginia State Police Lt. Michael Baylous said the hack redirected internet users trying to access the board’s site to “another site which promotes…
Meanwhile, back at the OPM breach….
Victims of the breach still have not been notified. OPM will start sending postal laters “later this month.” The government will spend $133 million on identity theft protection services. With options, it could go up to $330 million. ID Experts (Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC) got the gig to provide the service, which will provide…