Bill Laitner reports: A Catholic agency in Lansing that handles payroll processing and employee benefits across Michigan is the state’s latest victim of a major cyber attack. The Michigan Catholic Conference sent letters this week to more than 10,000 employees, warning them that their personal information has been compromised, officials said Friday. […] Although the…
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Boston University notifies medical research participants after server compromise
When a Boston University server was used to launch attacks against a system in Nova Scotia in May, the Nova Scotia network administrator contacted BU to alert them. BU’s month-long investigation revealed that one of its servers had been compromised – possibly by a hacker in Russia – in March 2015. Of note, the compromise…
Man linked to JPMorgan hacking in talks to resolve U.S. case: filing
Nate Raymond reports: A Florida man accused of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange and who is among five defendants linked to last summer’s massive data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co is in talks to resolve his criminal case, according to court papers filed Friday. In a court filing in federal court in Manhattan, a…
Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails
Sam Thielman reports: The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails and suggestions that he had affairs despite earlier denials. “Effective today, Noel Biderman, in mutual agreement with the company, is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Avid Life Media Inc (ALM) and is no…
Clayton Valley Charter attorney asks newspaper to return hacked files if obtained
Matthias Gafni has an update to a hack previously noted on this blog: An attorney for Clayton Valley Charter High School has shed new light on the extent of documents hacked from the school’s executive director. In an email sent Tuesday to reporters at this newspaper, attorney Paul Minney wrote that records obtained through a…
Casad Company Inc. Suffers Data Breach
ASI reports: Ohio-based Casad Company Inc., which runs the website totallypromotional.com, was the victim of a data breach in June and July, with hackers accessing the names, mailing and email addresses, and credit and debit card information for an undisclosed number of customers, according to documents posted online by the Office of the Attorney General…