Sean Lyngaas reports: An official timeline of the Office of Personnel Management breach obtained by FCW pinpoints the hackers’ calibrated extraction of data and the government’s step-by-step response. It illuminates a sequence of events that lawmakers have struggled to pin down in public hearings with Obama administration officials. The timeline makes clear that the heist…
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Who hacked Rutgers? University spending up to $3M to stop next cyber attack
Speaking of universities getting hacked, Kelly Heyboer reports that multiple attacks on Rutgers University that have resulted in the university investing seriously in preventing the next attack. Heyboer reports, in part: It is unclear if one cyber attacker was responsible for the series of disruptions that knocked Rutgers’ vast computer network offline four times during the 2014-2015 school…
More American universities hacked by JM511
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. The hacker who uses the nick “JM511” has been busy hacking more universities and has dumped some data from the University of California at Los Angeles. In a tweet last night, @JM511 noted that they had been warned twice: You’ve bEEn #warned #2times @UCLA — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) August…
CT: Backus Hospital sends 360 letters to patients regarding possible data breach
John Penney reports: A Norwich man received a letter from The William W. Backus Hospital on Saturday informing him of a possible data breach involving several pieces of sensitive patient information, one of more than 300 patients the hospital sent similar notifications to this month. Kenneth Keely Jr., of Williams St. provided the The Bulletin with…
Leaked Ashley Madison emails reveals 2012 hack
Mikael Thalen reports: Leaked emails from Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman reveal that a disgruntled user of the online cheating service Ashley Madison hacked hundreds of the site’s user accounts in 2012. […] One such email from Biderman in October of 2012 details how one Ashley Madison user “hacked” multiple accounts and attempted to…
Feds bust Wells Fargo, SunTrust and PNC bank employees in tax refund scam
David Allison reports: Federal investigators have indicted several Atlanta bank employees in a tax refund fraud scheme in which they filed more than 2,000 fraudulent tax returns in an effort to pocket more than $2 million in fraudulent tax refunds. What’s more, the feds say, the fraudulent tax returns were filed using personally identifying information…