AP reports: Oregon officials said Thursday that they plan to restructure information technology functions after software found an external third-party had gained access to a state network. Gov. Kate Brown said in a statement that someone gained access to so-called metadata last week at the Department of Administrative Services, which handles technology for much of…
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AU: Court recording biz with clients EVERYWHERE has forums breached
Darren Pauli reports: Australian court transcription company “For The Record” – which bills itself as “The No.1 digital evidence recording platform in the world” and says its products are “used in courtrooms throughout North America, Europe and Asia” – has had its forum hacked. The firm is used by the likes of the Victorian and…
MI: Potential data breach at unnamed merchant
Upper Michigan’s Source reports: Some Peninsula Federal Credit Union members had their debit cards cancelled as a precaution today. According to bank officials, the suspected data breach was at a local merchant. Read more on uppermichiganssource.com. Okay, not much there, I grant you, but it was only because I looked at that story that I…
GitHub ordered to hand over access logs to Uber
Kieren McCarthy reports: GitHub has been ordered to hand over records on some of its users to taxi-booking app Uber after unsuccessfully challenging a subpoena. Last month, Uber announced its driver database had been hacked in May 2014, but it had only noticed in September of that year. Uber discovered that a supposedly secret database…
NJ: Swedesboro-Woolwich School District Hacked, Ransom Demanded
Walt Hunter reports: The FBI, New Jersey State Police, county and local investigators are on the trail of hackers who hijacked a Gloucester County school’s district’s computer network, demanding a ransom payment to make it usable again. The Superintendent of the Swedesboro-Woolwich School District says the unidentified hackers are demanding a payment of 500 bitcoins,…
WebSitePipeline notifying clients of breach
BetterBee has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving some customers’ payment card information. BetterBee says they were contacted by their ecommerce host, WebSite Pipeline (WSP) that hackers had successfully attacked one of their main computers and gained access to some clients’ passwords. Using those passwords, the hackers then uploaded malware that…