Emilie Raguso and Lance Knobel report: Berkeley High School administrators say they have identified the student responsible for a “screen hack” in the library Wednesday that displayed racist threats against African Americans. Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow said, during a press conference Thursday afternoon, that a student, believed to have been acting alone, was responsible for the…
Category: U.S.
In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked
Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…
Huntington Medical Research Institutes discloses two HIPAA breaches in one-month period
HIPAA Journal reports: Nonprofit biomedical research company Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) has announced two HIPAA breaches in the space of a month: One involving the improper disposal of records, the other an alleged theft of patient data by a former employee. The insider breach reportedly impacted 4,300 patients. Read more on HIPAA Journal. The…
NC: Hacker changes grades at Panther Creek High School in Cary
T. Keung Hui reports: Cary Police are investigating after a hacker broke into the computer system at Panther Creek High School and changed the grades for some students, altering class ranks during the important college application period. In a letter posted on the school’s website Thursday, Panther Creek High Principal Camille Hedrick told families that the…
Interstitial Cystitis Network notifies customers of payment card breach
The California-based Interstitial Cystitis Network is notifying customers of a breach after customers first alerted them that payment cards used on their site had been compromised. In a letter dated October 26, ICN writes that the ICN Mail Order Center (www.icnsales.com) was compromised during the period of April 6, 2015 and October 1, 2015; customers placing orders during…
Maryland admits to exposing personal information of hundreds
WUSA reports: Maryland’s Department of Information Technology is admitting to exposing the “Personally Identifiable Information” of hundreds of people and companies that do business with the state by accidentally publishing a list of them on a public website. Data exposed included Social Security and Tax ID numbers. Read more on WUSA.