Melissa LaFreniere reports: Web.com faces a potential class action lawsuit over allegations that the website builder failed to provide reasonable security measures to keep the personal information of their clients safe. Lead plaintiff Morgorna Mohorne filed the Web.com class action lawsuit after a data breach in August 2015 allegedly left her credit and debit card…
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Student charged with hacking N.C. high school’s computer system, changing grades
Andrew Blake reports a follow-up to a hack previously noted on this site. A teenager was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday after a months-long investigation led authorities to believe that he broke into a high school computer system and altered several students’ grades in a Ferris Bueller-styled hack. High school senior Saivamsi Hanumanthu, 17,…
IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)
Matthew Patane reports: Medicap Pharmacy is warning customers about a possible data breach. The company said in a notice that an external hard drive was “inadvertently” disposed of on Nov. 5, 2015. The hard drive contained personal information. Medicap believed all of the information was encrypted, but said it learned on Dec. 3 that some information did…
University of Central Florida hack compromises 63,000 Social Security numbers
UCF posted the following statement today: An intrusion into the University of Central Florida’s computer network has resulted in unauthorized access to certain personal information of some current and former students and employees. After UCF discovered the unauthorized access in January, university officials immediately reported the incident to law enforcement and launched an internal investigation…
NY: Teen admits to hacking New Dorp High School student records
There’s an update on a case previously noted on this site and elsewhere involving a student hacking his school’s computer system and the city’s Education Department computers to change his grades. Frank Donnelly reports that Eric Walstrom of New Dorp pleaded guilty Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to felony and misdemeanor counts of computer…
CA: Davis Apartment Manager Accused of ID Theft; Police Suspect More Victims
Lonnie Wong reports: Davis police investigators say they believe there are many more victims of an apartment manager who was arrested on suspicion of stealing the identities of prospective tenants. William Raymond Stanley, Jr., was known as Erik Hamilton to tenants and the owners of the Tuscany Villas Apartments in East Davis. But the 30-year-old…