Michael S. Schmidt reports: The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel. Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals…
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Feds Looking Into Whether Hack of US Government Affected Private Citizens Too
Mike Levine reports: Federal investigators are trying to determine whether the massive hack into federal systems announced this past week impacted far more than the estimated 4 million current and former government employees already acknowledged by the Obama administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. In particular, investigators are considering the possibility that…
IN: Defunct “My Fast Lab” leaves patient information exposed
Giles Bruce reports yet another instance where a firm or covered entity closes and confidential data is just dumped, unshredded. I wish HHS and/or FTC would go after more of these situations and impose some serious consequences to send a clear message that this will not be tolerated. Medical tests. Copies of Social Security cards,…
Data hacked from U.S. government dates back to 1985: U.S. official
Andrea Shalal and Matt Spetalnick report: Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S. officials said on Friday, underlining the scope of one of the largest known cyber attacks on federal networks. Of the four million federal employees whose data were…
Scammers get personal info from 150 people on U-M email system
John Counts reports: Some email accounts of University of Michigan students and staff have been compromised, according to an alert posted on the school’s public safety departmental website Thursday. The alert says that more than 150 people on the system have fallen victim to “phishing emails” this week. People who have clicked on the scam…
OK: Saint Francis Hospital Gift Shop Acts to Block Payment Card Security Incident
Saint Francis Health System (“Saint Francis”) takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information provided to it by visitors to the Saint Francis Hospital gift shop. Regrettably, this notice is about an incident involving some of that information. On March 20, 2015, Saint Francis discovered that an unauthorized person remotely installed malware on the…