Terrie Morgan-Besecker reports that employees of Wayne County, Pennsylvania have been notified of the Paytime, Inc. breach noted previously on this blog: Hackers breached Wayne County’s payroll processor, potentially gaining access to hundreds of government employees’ Social Security numbers, home addresses and bank account information. Chief Clerk Vicky Botjer confirmed the county was notified Tuesday…
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PA: Hackers breach Paytime, Inc. payroll company
Joshua Vaughn reports: One Midstate payroll company is working to address security issues after discovering hackers had breached its security and accessed client information. In a written statement, Paytime Inc. of Upper Allen Township said it discovered a security breach on April 30. A subsequent investigation by third-party forensic IT experts found that the intruders…
SD: Student charged with hacking into Catholic high school’s network
A 17-year-old student has been charged with hacking into a high school’s computer network, causing the system to shut down, police said. The teenage boy has been charged with felony intentional damage to property after hacking into O’Gorman High School‘s computer network Thursday morning. He was arrested that afternoon, police said. Read more on Argus…
About 50K transactions, other data, compromised in three-month breach
Adam Greenberg reports: Arizona-based Gingerbread Shed Corporation is notifying customers that an unauthorized individual gained access to its systems for roughly three months and may have compromised about 50,000 transactions, as well as other data. Read more on SC Magazine. In addition to California, this incident was also reported to Vermont residents.
After data breach, Bitly enables 2-factor authentication
Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…
Autistic Hacker, “Eekdacat,” Helped FBI Nail Anonymous hacker, “Kayla”
William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…