News12 reports on an incident in the Bronx: The head of a summer youth program in West Farms is out of a job after sensitive and personal information was found dumped out on the sidewalk. The discarded files were left in plain sight, piled in a Dumpster across from the Phipps Community Development Center. The…
Category: Miscellaneous
No evidence that Pharmacist.com hack involved patient records (updated)
As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack. They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…
Biting the hand that feeds your soul?
As reported back in October 2011, it was a somewhat unusual ID theft case involving inmates and church volunteers, but now Associated Press reports that the perpetrator has been sentenced to four years in prison: Church members join in worship with inmates as part of the Women at the Well ministry of the United Methodist Church….
Brian Krebs: Global Payments Breach Fueled Prepaid Card Fraud
Brian Krebs has more on the Global Payments breach and how it fueled prepaid card fraud. You can read his report on Krebs on Security.
ICANN to notify domain applicants of data breaches
Georgina Prodhan of Reuters reports: Organizations taking part in the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far will find out next week whether their applications for new domain names could have been viewed by competitors as a result of a software bug. […] Beckstrom said he was confident the glitch in the system had…
BPAS hacker sentenced to jail
James Jeffery, who pleaded guilty to hacking the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in March, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.