WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
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Anti-Semitic fliers at Princeton U., other colleges were work of known hacker
Kevin Shea reports: The anti-Semitic fliers found on printers at Princeton University and dozens of other colleges last week were the work of a hacker once prosecuted in New Jersey on charges he stole 120,000 email addresses from AT&T-connected iPads. Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, a self-described “white nationalist hacktivist” now living in the partially-recognized country of Abkhazia, said…
TX: Alto city office battles ransomware issue
Ransomware continues to hit smaller entities and not just big hospital systems. Jo Anne Embleton reports: Being struck by a software virus is every computer user’s worst fear, including Alto city officials, who are now having to deal with the aftermath of a ransomware virus. Earlier this month, the city utilities office was hit by…
MedStar Health hit by virus affecting system
So no sooner do I get done updating the Mercy Iowa City breach that involved a virus infection of their system, then I see that MedStar Health in Washington also suffered a breach due to virus infection. John Cox of Washington Post reported: A virus infected the computer system of MedStar Health on Monday, forcing…
Hackers reportedly access OpSec employee data
How embarrassing would it be to have a firm named OpSec Security that advertises it’s “trusted by over 400 companies and 50 government agencies” – and then it falls for a phishing scheme? Tim Stuhldreher reports: In the wake of a data breach, an anti-counterfeiting company with local sales and manufacturing operations is advising its employees to be…
FBI issues warning to law firms
Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring…