Ionut Ilascu reports: Cybercriminals leveraged a vulnerability in the Perspectives website and managed to access a database containing eCheck payment information for website transactions. It appears that intruders also managed to publish unauthorized advertisements on certain portions of the site, promoting abortion pills. […] The date of the incident has been traced to September 2014,…
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Possible Breach at Luzerne County 911 Center
Andy Mehalshick reports: An investigation is underway into what’s being called a potential security breach at the Luzerne County 911 center. Someone posted sensitive information on a social media website. […] The Luzerne County communications center is in the process of upgrading its computer system, and sent a generic user name and password to some…
National Center for Charitable Statistics Discovers Unauthorized Access to Form 990 and e-Postcard Filing Systems for Nonprofit Organizations
The Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) recently discovered that an unauthorized party or parties gained access to the Form 990 Online and e-Postcard filing systems for nonprofit organizations. The intruder or intruders retrieved email addresses, usernames, passwords, first and last names, IP addresses, phone numbers, and addresses and names of nonprofits. This…
St. Mary Church food pantry computer stolen in Lorain, Ohio
May really bad karma teach this thief a lesson. Ron Vidika reports: A computer that was used to keep track of the names of family members receiving food at the monthly food pantry and community lunch at St. Mary Church in Lorain was stolen in broad daylight Feb. 23, the church’s pastor said. The theft…
Jeb Bush’s privacy-shattering email cache hid another surprise: Viruses
Martyn Williams reports: In addition to personal phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of people who corresponded with him, there’s something else inside the cache of emails that Jeb Bush released this week: computer viruses. Earlier this week, Bush, who some tip as a presidential hopeful, released thousands of emails from his time as…
Jeb Bush exposes 12,000 to ID theft after posting emails online
AP reports: It was meant to be a politically astute gesture of transparency, and would prove his tech credentials to boot. But when Jeb Bush posted online all his personal emails from his eight years as Florida’s governor, he failed to realise that tucked away in the 332,999 messages were the names, birthdates and Social…