“It’s just sort of the vagaries of the system (on) how it got corrupted” — a statement by the secretary for Catholic education at the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, on the catastrophic failures affecting computer servers in July that have delayed school opening at one high school.
Category: Miscellaneous
FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker”
Lee Munson reports: If you can’t do the time then you shouldn’t do the crime. And if you’re going to boast that you can’t get caught, you probably ought to be good at covering your tracks. At least, that’s the lesson I assume one Zachary Lee Morgenstern has learned. The Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one…
ICANN admits to hack of website users’ accounts
Shaun Nichols reports: ICANN says its website’s user accounts have been compromised by hackers who gained access to their names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. On Wednesday, the domain-name system overlord admitted its server security was breached within the past week: an “unauthorized person” obtained account records, which included harmless info such as site preferences, and…
MA: Local girl with rare condition has fundraising money stolen
Hackers stole hundreds of dollars from a bank account a young child had created to buy toys for other sick children. MyFoxBoston has the story: Noelle Gregoire first started raising money in “Laps for Backs” after she was inspired by her own trips to Tufts Floating Hospital. Gregoire suffers from a rare degenerative spinal condition,…
Athletics roiled by mass doping allegations after blood test leak
Karolos Grohmann reports: Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organizations said on Sunday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret…
Orange County Employees Association victim of hack
The Orange County Employees Association in Santa Ana, California is notifying an undisclosed number of people that their personal information, and that of their dependents, may have been accessed by hackers. In a notification to the state, OCEA writes that the attack, which appears to have occurred as early as June 5, was detected on July…