Craig Clough reports: The non-profit group behind the Vergara lawsuit, Students Matter, said its website was hacked over the weekend to display “vulgar and disgusting language.” The website as of this afternoon displayed the message, “We are temporarily Under Construction.” Students Matter sent out information about the hack in its regular newsletter Monday. Read more on…
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Data Breach: SC ID Theft Laws May Keep Consumers in the Dark
Christine Scarpelli reports: …. A 7 On Your Side investigation found that South Carolina has no specific requirements for when a business has to warn you of a data breach. Companies can wait weeks, or even months, before telling customers their personal and financial information is in the hands of thieves. 7 On Your Side learned…
IRS investigator from Alabama charged with fraud, identity theft in agency’s latest scandal
Elizabeth Beshears reports: An IRS agent from Alabama and his accomplice have been indicted for fraud and identity theft, resulting in thirty charges between the two men for conspiring to file fake tax returns. The indictments are the latest in a string of scandals to rock the agency responsible for collecting federal taxes and enforcing…
DOJ: Cyber extortionists targeting hedge funds
Kaja Whitehouse reports: The government is working with “several” hedge funds that have been victims of cyber extortionists, said John Carlin, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Carlin made the comments Friday at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, where he came to warn the crowd, made up of hedge fund…
We have met the enemy, and he is us, Monday edition…
Prepare to groan. The employee who left backup drives with databases on over 39,000 insured by the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) in a vehicle was… ISMA’s Information Technology administrator. And then, adding to this outrage, the aministrator reportedly filed a delayed police report over 24 hours later. Keep in mind that the drives were…
Former NRC employee indicted after attempting to sell nuclear secrets and launch cyber attack
Lucas W. Hixon reports: Charles Harvey Eccleston, a 62-year-old former employee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Energy (DOE) currently living in the Philippines, was the subject of an undercover investigation by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a cyber attack was used to attempt to steal files from…