KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
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NC: Nurse, pastor’s wife pleads guilty to ID theft
Diane Turbyfill reports: A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people. Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense. […] She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical…
CA: Hackers Breach Perspectives Website for Religious Classes
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,…
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…