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IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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University of Central Florida hack compromises 63,000 Social Security numbers

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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NY: Teen admits to hacking New Dorp High School student records

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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CA: Davis Apartment Manager Accused of ID Theft; Police Suspect More Victims

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Spear-Phishing Cyber-Attack on Department of Energy Computers

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a case I first noted in May of 2015. Charles Harvey Eccleston, 62, a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal offense stemming from an attempted e-mail “spear-phishing” attack in January 2015 that targeted dozens of DOE…

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NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…

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