Kim Zetter reports: An ex-Reuters employee has been found guilty of aiding members of Anonymous so they could hack his former employer. Matthew Keys, who was tried in Sacramento, was an online social media editor for the Reuters news agency when he was indicted in 2013 for allegedly providing a username and password to members of Anonymous to…
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Who will pay to clean up massive T-Mobile hack?
Eric Scigliano wonders whether anything will be done to waive fees for placing security freezes in the wake of Experian’s hack involving T-Mobile consumer data: Yesterday I asked representatives of Experian, T-Mobile, and the Washington Attorney General’s Office if they might be doing anything to fix this situation. “I’ll have to refer you to Experian on…
FBI probe of Clinton e-mail expands to second data company
Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman report: The FBI’s probe into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account. The additional data, provided by Connecticut-based Datto Inc., could open…
T-Mobile customers affected by the Experian breach can sign up with CSID for identity protection services
If you are a T-Mobile customer whose data was caught up in the Experian breach, there is now an alternative to the two-year offer of Experian’s ProtectMyID service. T-Mobile has made arrangements with CSID as an alternative. You can read the details and sign up at https://www.csid.com/t-mobile/ . Thanks to Steve Ragan for sharing that info with me….
Six Cuban Nationals Indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud, Access Device Fraud in Skimmers scheme
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced Friday that six Cuban nationals who reside in Florida were indicted for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and two counts of access device fraud. JULIET ESTRADA PEREZ, age 22; LUIS RIVERA GARCIA, age 26, JESUS ENRIQUE GONZALES TORRES, age 23, ORLANDO GUILLEN DIAZ, age 29, YOETNIS VAZQUEZ PEDROSA, age 31, and YILIAM TORRES, age 23,…
Affinity Health Plan notifies members of PHI breach
Affinity Health Plan notified 496 heads of household within Affinity’s membership on August 21, 2015, about the disclosure of some of their personal information via a mailing of Child Health Plus renewal letters. A sample of the notification letter sent to affected households can be found in this link, which explains the incident in greater detail. On…