Julie Hirschfield Davis reports: Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, resigned under pressure on Friday, one day after the government revealed that two sweeping cyberintrusions at the agency had resulted in the theft of the personal information of more than 22 million people, including those who had applied for sensitive security…
Category: Hack
What were you doing at age 13? This hacker-for-hire almost broke the internet
Ian Proctor reports: Bedroom geek Seth Nolan-Mcdonagh joined a network of virtual vandals who brought global institutions’ websites to their knees. He was the second hacker to be sentenced today as Madonna’s Rebel Heart hacker Adi Leaderman was jailed for 14 months. […] Adopting the pseudonym Narko, Nolan-Mcdonagh made £70,000 by using software to overload the sites and…
Senator Collins’ Statement on Reports that OPM Cyber Attack Affected At Least 21.5 Individuals
There’s a lot of spluttering and public statements in response to today’s revised figures by OPM on their massive breach, but I think Senator Collins nails it. From her office: WASHINGTON, D.C.— Following the completion of its internal damage assessment, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that the personal information of at least…
LA: Former Systems Administrator Charged With Intentionally Damaging Computers
July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers. The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…
OPM revises estimate on 2nd breach; new total is 21.5 million affected
OPM has issued an updated statement on its lousy infosecurity two recently detected breaches. It reads, in part: OPM recently discovered two cyber-security incidents that have impacted the data of Federal government employees, contractors, and others: In April 2015, OPM discovered that the personnel data of 4.2 million current and former Federal government employees had…
Israeli sentenced to 14 months in jail for hacking Madonna
Yonah Jeremy Bob reports: Hacking and leaking Madonna’s unreleased recordings online does not pay, as Adi Lederman learned receiving a 14 month sentence from the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday as part of a plea bargain deal following his conviction for cyber crimes against the pop singer. Read more on The Jerusalem Post.