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Seagate To Settle Phishing Scam With $5.75M In-Kind Deal

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

Seagate was one of many companies whose employee W-2 data were phished in 2016. In September 2016, the employees sued over the incident. Now Dave Simpson reports that the suit has a tentative settlement: Seagate Technologies LLC has agreed to a settlement that includes services valued at $5.75 million to end a proposed class action…

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University of Vermont Medical Center notifies 2,300 patients of phishing incident

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Dissent

The University of Vermont Medical Center takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. On May 24, 2017, we learned an unauthorized third party gained access to an employee’s email account on May 22, 2017. We immediately shut down the employee’s…

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Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime That Cost Sedgwick County $566,000+

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Dissent

A Georgia man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges he was part of an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County more than $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. George S. James, 49, Brookhaven, Ga., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. In his plea, James admitted that on Oct. 7, 2016, Sedgwick County…

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Agra police cracks international phishing case in record two days, recovers Rs 28 lakh

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Dissent

Ankit Misra posts: In a major international anti-cybercrime crackdown, the Agra police has recovered Rs 28 lakh from England-based hackers, an amount they looted by phishing a footwear exporter from the city. Working in collaboration with the British police, the Agra police achieved this breakthrough in a record two days’ time. Talking to India Today,…

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Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Bitcoin From Other Dark Web Criminals

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Dissent

From the no-honor-among-thieves dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Connecticut man pleaded guilty last week to stealing Bitcoin from users of Dark Web marketplaces, said the Department of Justice on Tuesday. The FBI arrested the man — Michael Richo, 35, of Wallingford, Connecticut — on November 6, 2014, but only arraigned him in court last year…

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Patient records in emails may have been accessed in phishing incident at Torrance Memorial Medical Center

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Dissent

City News Service reports: Torrance Memorial Medical Center began notifying some patients Monday that email accounts containing “work-related reports” and personal data were breached at the hospital.The so-called phishing attack occurred on April 18 and 19, according to medical center spokesman Ed Finn, who said facility personnel, working with third-party forensic investigators, launched an investigation…

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