AP reports that the Minnesota Judicial Branch website was unavailable to the public last month due to DDoS attacks. No data were breached. Read more on MPR.
Category: U.S.
OR: Companies and state agencies must notify state of breaches affecting more than 250 Oregonians
KTVZ reminds everyone that Oregon’s new law has gone into effect whereby businesses and state agencies must notify the Oregon Attorney General of breaches affecting the personal information of at least 250 Oregonians. The new law defines protected data to include any medical, health insurance or biometric information as well as Social Security numbers, government ID numbers or…
FTC e-mail gaffe reveals 600 attendees’ email addresses before privacy conference
Laura Hautala reports: Maybe I’m naive to expect a certain savviness about privacy from the FTC, especially just before it convenes a group of experts in privacy and cybersecurity at a conference in Washington, DC, next week. I certainly didn’t expect the agency to accidentally send out a list of every attendee’s email address. But,…
Hacked OPM won’t cough up documents on mega-breach – claim
Shaun Nichols reports: The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – which handles sensitive files on millions of government workers and was thoroughly ransacked by hackers – is withholding thousands of documents from Congress, which is probing the cyber-attack. This is according to members of the House Committee on Oversight, who took OPM to task…
Ex-Cardinals Scouting Director to Plead Guilty to Hacking Houston Astros: Sources (UPDATED)
Brian Costa and Devlin Barrett are reporting that according to sources, Chris Correa, the former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals, is scheduled to plead guilty today in connection with an unauthorized breach of the Houston Astros computer network. Read more on WSJ. Update: The sources were right – he did plead guilty to five counts, as The…
Leader of $200M credit card fraud scheme sentenced
Tim Darragh reports: Tahir Lodhi led one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the U.S. Department of Justice, and Thursday was the day his bill came due. The Hicksville, N.Y. man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud…