Howard Koplowitz reports: Guccifer, the hacker who infiltrated the email accounts of influential Americans and released former President George W. Bush’s paintings and exposed an alleged affair of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, was arrested Wednesday in Romania. Guccifer has been identified as 42-year-old Marcel Lazăr Lehel, a former cab driver who was sentenced…
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Court guts much of class action lawsuit against Sony over data breach, but some claims remain
An order handed down yesterday by a federal judge in the Southern District of California in In re: SONY GAMING NETWORKS AND CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION gutted much of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Sony over their 2011 PlayStation hack, but allows some important claims to go forward. As background, Judge Battaglia summarized the litigation in the First…
Hackers access 16 million email accounts
Millions of Germans have had their passwords and usernames for websites stolen, the country’s Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on Tuesday. The BSI said 16 million accounts containing passwords and email addresses had been compromised, according to information passed to it by law enforcement agencies and research institutions. Authorities have set up a website…
Identity info of every licensed physician in Puerto Rico acquired in hack (updated)
Associated Press reports that the personal information of all licensed medical doctors in Puerto Rico was acquired in a recent hack. They report that since the hack, doctors have been getting harassing emails, but it’s not clear from their reporting as to what information was accessed or acquired in the intrusion, other than the statement from…
U.S. Fund for Unicef hacked
On December 2, the U.S. Fund for Unicef discovered that it had been hacked on or about November 4. Upon discovery, they immediately disabled and disconnected the server from the network, and arranged for forensic examination. The investigation confirmed that only the one server was involved, but that personal information – including names, phone numbers,…
WA: Fire department medical response records and personnel information hacked
Press release from NORCOM, issued yesterday: BELLEVUE, Wash.–The North East King County Regional Public Safety Communication Agency (NORCOM) has announced it is working with local and federal agencies to investigate the security breach of a server that stored records of an estimated 6,000 medical responses for Duvall Fire District 45, Skykomish Fire Department and Snoqualmie Pass Fire & Rescue (Fire District…