Kathianne Boniello reports: A Bronx college had its own “Freak Squad” of tech workers who hacked student and employee computers to steal porn and intimate images, according to a lawsuit. Four men in the Academic Computing Center at Hostos Community College admitted breaking into the personal laptops of female students to steal naked pictures and…
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ME: Data breach hits York Hospital employees
SeacoastOnline reports: York Hospital has been hit by cyber criminals who stole identifying information from employees, but the hospital says patient information was not targeted. A press release sent out Wednesday afternoon said there is no indication at this time that patient health information, which is stored on a system separate from staff employment information,…
AL: Juvenile suspect arrested in JSU student data breach
First his Twitter account was suspended. Then he was arrested. That’s probably why he didn’t respond to an email inquiry from this site. There’s an update to the JSU breach reported yesterday. William Thornton reports that a juvenile has been arrested by order of the District Court of Calhoun County and is being detained by the Coosa Valley…
Bay Area Chiropractic Center patient info allegedly stolen by doctor to open his own practice
It seems that Bay Area Chiropractic Center LLC had a breach in 2015 that they first reported to Oregon this month. The breach occurred between June 1, 2015 and August 31, 2015, and was discovered on December 10, 2015. Affected patients were notified on December 22, 2015. Why they are first reporting this to Oregon is unclear to this…
Utah pulls warrants on Southern Utah websites linked to Ashley Madison hack
Tracie Sullivan reports: Utah authorities are investigating a website allegedly created by a Cedar City resident who published personal information of Southern Utah residents whose names were part of a 2015 website hack. According to four search warrants unsealed last week in 3rd District Court, a Facebook page and a website called AM Southern Utah “disclosed…
Former Smart Online IT manager sentenced to 30 months for sending damaging code to the firm’s servers
There’s a follow-up to an incident previously reported on this site. Nikhil Nilesh Shah, a former information technology manager at Smart Online, who pleaded guilty in August to sending damaging computer code to servers at his former employer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. He was also ordered to pay pay $324,462 in restitution. SOURCE: U.S. Attorney’s…