Dan McCue reports: Debt broker Bayview Solutions LLC posted the debt portfolios of 28,000 consumers online, including their bank account numbers and other identifying information, the Federal Trade Commission claims in a federal lawsuit. Bayview Solutions was established in 2008 and does business as Bayview Risk Management Capital and Bayview Commercial Recovery. It’s primary business…
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Vladimir Drinkman to be extradited to U.S.
The Associated Press reports that the Dutch government has approved the extradition of Vladimir Drinkman to the United States. Drinkman is accused of articipating in a hacking ring that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen corporations and stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers.
Security breach pushes Cumberland Valley officials to move up plans for network audit
Tricia Kline reports an update to a breach reported in August: The Cumberland Valley School Board has approved a $43,000 contract for a security audit of the district computer network following a security breach that was discovered in August. Before the breach occurred, CV spokeswoman Tracy Panzer said, the district was planning to budget a security audit…
Voter info stolen in Southeast DC?
WUSA9 reports: A volunteer says laptops with voters’ information was stolen in an early morning break-in at the Davis Elementary voting precinct in Southeast D.C., reports WUSA9 producer Stephanie Wilson. A Board of Elections official said no voter information was compromised, because the laptops have to be connected to the BOE network for anyone to…
ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach
Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…
Not-so Anonymous: How hackers wreaked havoc in St. Louis
David Hunn has a lengthy piece on how so-called hacktivists and identity thieves disrupted the lives of people who were neither responsible for Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson nor for law enforcement’s response. Here’s how it begins: The first call came on a Thursday, 12 days after Michael Brown was shot. Patti Knowles and her granddaughter…