Gadsden Times reports: A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Hoover senior living center employee to four years and nine months in prison for using the identity of a resident with dementia to steal more than $300,000 from the resident’s bank and credit accounts, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent…
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Florida private investigator charged with attempting to hack Muslim charity
Teri Robinson reports: Timothy Sedlak, a private investigator in Florida, was charged Monday with trying to gain unauthorized access to a charity’s computer system allegedly while doing research on whether some nonprofits are “unintentionally” providing financial support to Islamic jihadists. The charity wasn’t identified in a complaint filed against the 42-year-old Sedlak in federal court in the…
MI: Oakland Family Services security breached, 16K clients affected
John Turk reports: Pontiac-based OaklandFamily Services, a community outreach organization, is investigating a security breach that could have affected 16,000 clients in the area. An unknown person gained access to the email account of an employee in July, which resulted in the potential viewing of protected health information. Read more on Daily Tribune. The full text…
UK: Hacker vows to continue making Network Warrington site unavailable until price hike statement made
The Warrington Guardian reports that the municipal bus operator, Network Warrington, has been targeted with DDoS attacks in protest for an unexplained rate hike: An anonymous hacker has vowed to continue taking down Network Warrington‘s website until a statement is made on why it increased bus fares. The Warrington resident, known as Grey, claims to…
Heritage Foundation confirms that breach was a leak, not hack
As an update to the Heritage Foundation data leak previously covered here: Politico reporter Dave Perera got in touch with me about my reporting that The Heritage Foundation (THF) was not hacked – as they had claimed – but had had a leak. Perera and Tim Starks have now reported that they got confirmation from THF that yes, it was…
San Diego-based Agent of Change notifying students that personal and sensitive information accessed by hackers
We End Violence LLC is notifying an unspecified number of students that their personal information may be in the hands of hackers after the Agent of Change web site was accessed by unauthorized individual(s). The compromised personal information includes gender identity, ethnicity, relationship status, sexual identity, and other personally identifiable information. Here is their notice:…