Adam Schrager has more on how News 3’s investigative reporting has resulted in a response from U.S. Senators: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is calling for a federal investigation into how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs handles the personally identifiable information of America’s veterans. This comes after a News 3 investigation into an instance in April…
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Six months after OPM hack detected, 75% of victims still not notified
Dustin Volz reports: Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said on Tuesday. About 5 million notifications about the hack have been sent out so far,…
vBulletin patches and forces password reset as 0day is posted for sale
@Cyber_War_News contributed to this post. vBulletin.com is back online after a breach first reported on DataBreaches.net. In new developments, vBulletin forced a password reset and issued a patch while the 0day used to hack them was put for sale. Password Reset An announcement in their forum last night acknowledged the breach and explains: vBulletin.com Password Reset…
UT: Salt Lake City School District systems down after hack, no student info compromised
Fox News reports: The Salt Lake City School District phone system is working again after officials said a cyber hack took down phone and online systems Monday. The district said, ” Our district network was the target of a cyber attack where thousands of external systems coordinated to access our system at the same time. This attack…
Pennsylvania man gets prison for hiring “hacker” to erase court fines
From the do-you-know-who-you’re-hiring-on-Craigslist dept: Miles Snyder reports: A Harrisburg man will serve at least two years in prison for recruiting a computer hacker to wipe out fines he owed to Lancaster County. Zachary J. Landis, 27, was sentenced to 2-4 years in state prison after pleading guilty last week to felony counts of computer trespass, unlawful…
Investigation: Burglar Uses Personal Info Sold by Minnesota to Target Victims
Megan Newquist reports: Imagine a burglar stalking his victims and taking pictures of their cars in parking lots, knowing their whereabouts and then breaking into their homes. Eden Prairie police say that’s exactly what 45-year-old David William Pollard was doing, but they didn’t know how until he was arrested leaving a Minnetonka home on April…