Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. Lazar pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris of the Eastern District of Virginia on May 25, 2016. According…
Category: Of Note
LabMD files for stay of FTC order
As expected, LabMD is seeking a stay of the FTC’s order while they appeal the Commission’s final order to a federal court. As I was reading their application, one particular footnote caught my eye, as it relates to the purpose of the raid on Tiversa that this site reported back in March. 3 The FBI raided Tiversa headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,…
AU: Child services breaches foster kids’ privacy at least 58 times: report
Beau Donelly reports: A car was doused in petrol in one of six “significant” cases where children or carers were put in danger as a direct result of the leak-plagued child protection department’s own breaches, a review has uncovered. The state government has put vulnerable children and foster carers “at direct risk of harm” at least 58 times in the…
SWIFT discloses more cyber thefts, pressures banks on security
Jim Finkle reports: SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February’s high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank. In a private letter to clients, SWIFT said that new cyber-theft attempts – some of them successful…
UK: Data security incident trends
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, an interesting report with data for Q1 of 2016/17 by sector and attack type. Not surprisingly, the greatest number of breaches were reported by the healthcare sector: Analysis of the types of health data security incidents revealed that the most common sources were errors involving paper records, such as mailing or faxing errors,…
Watchdog: IRS failed to notify over 1M people of identity theft
Naomi Jagoda reports: The Internal Revenue Service identified close to 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week. “Employment-related identity theft can cause significant burden to taxpayers, including the…