Kery Murakami reports: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts LLC’s appeal of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against the hotel chain for alleged lax data protection practices is being watched closely by banking officials who say it could lead to uncertainty over cybersecurity regulations for emerging technologies such as mobile wallets and digital payments. The case…
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Hackers breach Commack High School computer system, district officials say
Valerie Bauman reports: Commack school district officials said Thursday night that an “unauthorized person” broke into a high school computer data network containing class schedules, student identification numbers, names and addresses. In a statement posted on the district website, officials said there is no evidence that whoever hacked the system downloaded any specific student information….
SC: Drug tester, pharmacist deny wrongdoing in alleged prescription records breach
Glenn Smith reports: A Charleston drug screener and a Hollywood pharmacist pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiring to harvest confidential patient prescription records from a state database so attorneys could use them in Family Court cases. The indictments against drug tester Robert Bennett [of Medical-Legal Services in West Ashley] and pharmacist Timothy Keisler [of Preferred…
CA: Outback Steakhouse employee info on stolen POS computer
Employees at the Outback Steakhouse in Northridge, California are learning that their personal information is in the hands of burglars. In a break-in that occurred on the evening of August 6, 2015, computer equipment including the point of sale computer and back office computer were stolen. A letter from T-Bird Restaurant Group, the firm that manages that franchise,…
SONY HACK WAS WAR says FBI, and ‘we’re still struggling to hire talent’
Alexander J. Martin reports: Yesteryear’s hack of Sony Pictures was an act of war, stated FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Wallach, who delivered the FBI’s gradation system of cybercriminals to net security conference Cloudsec on Thursday, 17 September. US agencies have fingered the North Korean government for the Sony attack repeatedly, initially to much scorn as the nation is…
AL: Former Hoover senior center employee sentenced for identity theft
Gadsden Times reports: A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Hoover senior living center employee to four years and nine months in prison for using the identity of a resident with dementia to steal more than $300,000 from the resident’s bank and credit accounts, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent…