It’s been a rough patch for EWTN Global Catholic Network. Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them in their appeal of ACA’s mandate requiring employer-sponsored health plans to provide coverage for contraception, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs. The very next evening, they discovered they’d suffered a data breach involving all their U.S. employees after…
Category: Miscellaneous
Teen hacker linked to ‘Evacuators 2K16’ released by French police
Will Stewart and Peter Allen report: A teenage computer wizard with links to bomb threats against schools all over the world has been released by police in France. Vincent Lauton, an 18-year-old who still lives with his parents, was being questioned by detectives in Paris over the bomb hoax threats which spread fear from the…
ORCID Security Incident
ORCID describes itself as an “open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.” The following notice was…
IN: Security breach reported by Kankakee Valley REMC
The Chicago Tribune reports that Kankakee Valley REMC is investigating the possibility that a breach may have compromised almost 18,000 members’ personal information. According to a press release issued by the electric utility cooperative, the breach was detected by an audit in mid-January that indicated that a foreign IP address had accessed a storage device on the network. According…
Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret
So it seems the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) hack and data dump did disclose some documents that while not shocking to me, are somewhat annoying to the public. George Joseph reports: Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records…
Colombia lawyers have sensitive human rights information stolen
There has reportedly been a burglary at a lawyer’s office where the target may have been sensitive information on human rights cases. ABColombia reports: The lawyers office of the Centre for the Studies for Social Justice –Tierra Digna’s was broken into during the night of the 19 January 2016 and a laptop containing sensitive information…