Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…
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PA: South Western school officials investigate security breach
Updating the breach report involving South Western High School in Pennsylvania: The Evening Sun now reports that the school board met last night in closed session to discuss the breach, which appears to have involved two high school students. All the superintendent would say is that they were probably just trying to get attention. If…
Anthem offers free identity-theft protection after breach
Bill Berkrot and Karen Freifield report: Anthem Inc. said on Wednesday its millions of customers can sign up for free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection services this week following a massive cyber attack involving stolen U.S. Social Security numbers, birth dates and sensitive health information. “Consumers will be able to sign up for these services,…
TN: Police report filed in security breach at State of Franklin Healthcare
NewsChannel 11 reports that at least four employees of State of Franklin Health Care Associates have become victims of ID theft following a breach involving payroll information. The Johnson City Police are investigating. A letter sent to SoFHA employees from CEO Richard Panek on Tuesday said, “I regret to inform you of a recent data…
CA: Private Investigators Indicted for Hacking the Computers of People Opposing Their Clients in Civil Suits
SAN JOSE – Nathan Moser, Peter Siragusa, AKA Bobby Russo, Carlo Pacileo, Trent Williams, and Sumit Gupta, AKA Sumit Vishnoi, were charged with crimes related to a conspiracy to access the e-mail accounts, Skype accounts, and computers of people opposing Moser’s and Siragua’s clients’ in civil lawsuits. The indictment was announced today after it was unsealed…
Defense Contract Management Agency Probes Hack
Brian Krebs reports: The Defense Contract Management Agency, the U.S. federal government entity responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is responding to a suspected cybersecurity breach and has pulled a number of its servers offline while the investigation continues, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. So far, there’s no evidence that any personal…