There’s another update to the case of the Akhter twin brothers, and it looks like Muneeb Akhter was successful in fending off the prosecution’s request for a 6-year sentence. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of Virginia issued a statement yesterday: Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit…
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Golden State Risk Management Authority notifying members of Systema Software incident
Despite having been notified almost one month ago by Chris Vickery and/or Systema Software, some entities whose databases were exposed on AWS by Systema Software still do not appear to have issued public statements about the incident. Nor have I seen any reports appearing on HHS’s public breach tool. But in a statement posted on its…
No, the Experian hack did NOT go on for over two years: it happened last month
In reading a lot of the coverage of Experian’s breach affecting those who applied for T-Mobile USA accounts, I noticed that some journalists and others seemed to interpret Experian’s statement as indicating that the data were hacked/accessed over a two-year period (from September 2013 to September 2015). As I noted to a commenter earlier today,…
Scottrade Breach Hits 4.6 Million Customers (Updated)
Brian Krebs reports: Welcome to Day 2 of Cybersecurity (Breach) Awareness Month! Today’s awareness lesson is brought to you by retail brokerage firm Scottrade Inc., which just disclosed a breach involving contact information and possibly Social Security numbers on 4.6 million customers. In an email sent today to customers, St. Louis-based Scottrade said it recently heard…
1,040 Sentara Heart Hospital patients notified of HIPAA breach
Elizabeth Simpson reports that a person or persons managed to steal two portable hard drives with PHI from two electrophysiology labs at Sentara Heart Hospital in August: The August theft of two portable hard drives from Sentara Heart Hospital’s electrophysiology labs led hospital officials to send letters about a security breach this week to 1,040 patients….
American Bankers Association notifies 6,400 to reset passwords after hack and data dump
So it seems that the American Bankers Association had a breach, although I didn’t see it any mainstream media reports. Marc Hochstein noted the breach in a column he wrote today: American Bankers Association separately said that email addresses and passwords used to make purchases or register for events through its online shopping cart had…