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…
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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…
Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…
Attempted hack of Jacksonville Aviation Authority disclosed
WJXT in Florida is reporting (video) that the FBI is actively investigating an attempted hack of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority on November 26, shortly before Thanksgving. In a statement to the news station, JAA indicated that it believes the attack was unsuccessful and will continue to believe so unless it hears otherwise from the FBI, but…