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Lottery IT security boss guilty of hacking lotto systems to win $14.3m

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Iain Thomson reports: Iowa state lottery’s IT security boss hacked his employer’s computer system, and rigged the lottery so he could buy a winning ticket in a subsequent draw. On Tuesday, at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, the disgraced director of information security was found guilty of fraud. Eddie Tipton, 52, installed…

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Potential class action filed in UCLA Health System breach

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

So of course UCLA Health System has been sued over their recently disclosed breach, even though they’ve said they don’t have any evidence that patient information was even accessed. All they know/were able to confirm so far is that the hackers had access to the part of the system that housed patient information. Law360 has…

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Army thought breach notification emails were phishing attempts

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Oops. Jana Winter reports: Last month, in the wake of a series of massive breaches at the federal Office of Personnel Management, the Army issued a bulletin warning that some victims were being hit by hackers a second time, this time with an email phishing campaign asking them to input personal information into a third-party website to receive…

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MN: Guests’ personal information found next to Motel 6 dumpster

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Maybe they should change their advertising to “We’ll leave the light on, and your details outside?” Tyler Berg reports: A guest at a St. Paul Motel 6 said she came across boxes full of personal information laying next to a dumpster. Leyla Dupey said she was walking her dog last week outside the motel when she…

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U.S. decides against publicly blaming China for OPM hack

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

Ellen Nakashima reports: Months after the discovery of a massive breach of U.S. government personnel records, the Obama administration has decided against publicly blaming China for the intrusion in part out of reluctance to reveal the evidence that American investigators have assembled, U.S. officials said. The administration also appears to have refrained from any direct…

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KY: Metro employees’ personal information at risk after breach at cloud vendor (updated)

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Dissent

No. This is not yet another data breach in the healthcare sector. What it appears to be is a surprisingly late notification in a previously known breach, though. WLKY reports that the personal information of potentially more than 10,000 Louisville metro workers who have Concentra health insurance may have been impacted by the Medical Informatics Engineering…

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