A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…
Category: U.S.
Visionworks Settles Maryland AG Charges Over Data Breaches
Attorney General Brian E. Frosh today announced that the Office of the Attorney General Consumer Protection Division entered into a settlement agreement with Visionworks, LLC, resolving an investigation into two data breaches the company experienced in 2014 that affected more than 72,000 Marylanders. Visionworks failed to properly secure consumers’ personal information while upgrading to fully encrypted…
Hillary’s email firm was run from a loft apartment with its servers in the BATHROOM
Hugo Daniel reports: The IT company Hilary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet, Daily Mail Online can reveal. Daily Mail Online tracked down ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado, who revealed the outfit’s strong links to the Democratic…
Update on IRS breach affecting Katy ISD employees
Several weeks ago, Katy ISD in Texas started notifying 11,658 current and former employees that their SSN and personal information were on a flash drive that was lost by an IRS employee during an audit. Today, Landan Kuhlmann reports that the district enrolled all the affected employees in a credit-monitoring program provided by iLock360 for…
Web.com reports 93,000 customers’ payment card data compromised in breach (update1)
Web.com issued the following press release today: Web.com reported that it discovered an unauthorized breach of one of its computer systems on August 13, 2015. As the result of this attack, the credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers (of the company’s over 3.3 million customers) may have been compromised. The company uncovered the unauthorized activity…
Update: Fred’s Inc. says no evidence that payment card data was exfiltrated in breach
More details have emerged about the breach acknowledged by Fred’s Inc. after Brian Krebs contacted them. Ted Evanoff reports that two servers were compromised by malware. Although the company would not disclose how many customers were affected, their public relations firm issued a statement that said, in part: The investigation determined that an unauthorized person gained…