Tom Fornelli reports that the student who hacked into the U. of Georgia system to rib them over a football rivalry has escaped what could have been 15 years in prison for a felony: Ryan Gregory Pickren, a 21-year old student at Georgia Tech, had some fun at Georgia’s expense before the two teams played in…
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NY: Teen accused of hacking high school, improving grades (updated)
Frank Rosario, Erin Calabrese and Natalie O’Neill report: A tech-savvy Staten Island high-school student who studied advanced computer programming at an NYU camp used his skills to hack into a secure computer system and improve his scores, sources told The Post Thursday. Eric Walstrom, 16, a junior at New Dorp HS, made it past a…
Wyndham: Third Circuit Requests Briefing on Whether FTC Declared Unreasonable Cybersecurity Practices Are ‘Unfair’
Katherine Gasztonyi writes: On February 20, the Third Circuit sent a letter to counsel in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., identifying at least one topic that will be addressed in the upcoming oral argument regarding the parties’ dispute over whether the FTC has the authority to regulate companies’ data security practices: whether unreasonable cybersecurity practices…
UK: ICO fines Staysure after hacked card details used for fraud
There’s an update to a breach reported on this site in January 2014: An online holiday insurance company has been fined £175,000 by the ICO after IT security failings let hackers access customer records. More than 5,000 customers had their credit cards used by fraudsters after the attack on Staysure.co.uk. Attackers potentially had access to over 100,000…
Police probe video of possible data hack at the National Archives
Did hackers access protected data at the National Archives or didn’t they? It’s not clear, as Elise Viebeck and Cory Bennett report: The National Archives acknowledged Wednesday that it has alerted law enforcement to a suspicious video posted online by hackers who purport to have gained access to agency files. Released on YouTube earlier this month,…
AU: Anonymous member charged over revenge hacking of Australian intelligence websites
Dan Oakes reports: A Melbourne man, allegedly part of the Anonymous online collective, has been charged over the revenge hacking of Australian intelligence agency websites. Mathew John Hutchison faced Melbourne Magistrates Court this week, accused of urging Indonesian hackers to attack the websites of ASIO, the Australian Signals Directorate and Australia’s overseas spy agency, ASIS….