Ryan J. Reilly reports: Eleven individuals charged with helping overwhelm PayPal’s website in 2010 have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors that could potentially allow them to avoid a felony conviction. Under the terms of the deal, 11 defendants in what is known as the “PayPal 14” case pleaded guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges…
Category: Of Note
Louisiana Agencies Notified of Breach Across Certain JPMorgan Chase Systems; Breach Not Confined to Louisiana (Update1)
Press release issued by Commissioner Kristy Nichols: BATON ROUGE – Commissioner Kristy Nichols announced that three Louisiana state agencies were notified by JP Morgan Chase today that a data breach may have exposed the personal information of certain Louisiana citizens. The Louisiana Department of Revenue (LDR), the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC), and the Louisiana Department…
Maricopa Community Colleges notifies 2.5M after data security breach (update 6)
Tim Gallen and Mike Sunnucks report: The Maricopa County Community College District is notifying nearly 2.5 million students, former students, vendors and employees because their personal information may have been exposed in a security breach. The Tempe-based college district announced today that it is contacting 2.49 million students, employees and suppliers that their information may…
Yoke’s, Rosauers urge customers to not use cards amid network hack
Tom Sowa reports: Some Spokane-area grocery stores, including all 12 Yoke’s Fresh Markets and 21 Rosauers stores, are telling customers that debit and credit card payments won’t be processed normally while investigators try to secure a computer network that was hacked over the past two months. The data breach was reported in recent weeks by local…
Update: Arrest in Sachem schools data breach (update1)
There has been another development in a data breach involving the Sachem Central School District on Long Island (previous coverage here and here). As I commented previously, it sounded to me like they suspected an insider breach but it wasn’t clear if it was an employee or a student hacker they suspected. Well, now we…
Scannable VA cards put veterans at risk of identity theft
From the FFS department: Jackie Calloway reports: Anyone with a smartphone and a bar code app can scan any VA identification card issued since 2004 and the cardholder’s Social Security number immediately pops up on the screen. Tampa businessman and Army veteran Barry Landau wants answers. “I didn’t think that was possible.” Landau said. “The…