The Associated Press reports that the amount of data missing from Dallas’s computer database is almost triple the initial estimate of files lost during a data migration involving Dallas Police files. About 15 terabytes of police data are missing besides the 7.5 terabytes initially thought to be lost, city spokeswoman Janella Newsome said. Read more…
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Cream Finance loses $25 million in another security breach
Ibiam Wayas reports: For the second time in six months, popular decentralized lending protocol Cream Finance has suffered another attack due to a “reentrancy bug,” according to blockchain security and data analytics company, PeckShield. The protocol’s development team confirmed the incident on Twitter, noting that AMP tokens and Ether (ETH) were lost. Read more on Cryptopolitan.
La Puente man impersonated Apple customer support to steal 620,000 iCloud photos in plot to find images of nude women
Michael Finnegan reports: A Los Angeles County man broke into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and collected more than 620,000 private photos and videos in a plot to steal and share images of nude young women, federal authorities say. Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of La Puente, has agreed to plead guilty to four felonies, including…
Morgan Stanley asks court to throw out data security lawsuit
Ryan W. Neal reports: Morgan Stanley has asked a New York federal court to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging the firm failed to properly wipe sensitive client information from decommissioned computer equipment that has since gone missing. The former clients cannot plausibly identify instances of personal data being accessed or misused, or any…
Two members of QQAAZZ money-laundering group for cybercriminals plead guilty in Pittsburgh
Torsten Ove reports: Two Latvian members of the international money-laundering operation for cybercriminals called QQAAZZ have pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh, the U.S. attorney said Friday. Arturs Zaherevics, who was extradited to Pittsburgh from London, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to launder money. Aleksejs Trofimovics, extradited here from Latvia, had pleaded guilty on…
Washington Hospital hires outside investigator after two electrical fires down internet, phones, medical records database
Joseph Geha reports: Two small electrical fires broke out over three days last week at Washington Hospital, temporarily leaving employees without access to critical internal systems, including an electronic medical records database, officials said. It’s unclear what caused the fires so the hospital has hired an outside company to investigate, according to Kel Kanady, community…