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Category: U.S.

State apologizes after exposing crime victims’ personal info online

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Dissent

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety is apologizing after a breach exposed crime victims’ information online.  Kelly Hinchcliffe and Laura Leslie of WRAL report that the news station discovered the breach: The breach happened sometime in late 2012 after the department created a new website and moved it to a state server, according Department…

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TX: Man allegedly tied to hacker group Anonymous accused of targeting ‘Monitor,’ La Joya ISD, Hidalgo County

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Dissent

Ildefonso Ortiz reports: A Donna man with ties to the international computer hacking group Anonymous is accused of trying to break into various Web servers, including those of Hidalgo County, La Joya ISD and The Monitor. Thursday morning, a somber-looking Fidel Salinas went before Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who informed him of the new accusations presented…

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Hey “Chicken Littles,” Wyndham Doesn’t Mean the Sky is Falling

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dissent

Jeff Kosseff writes: Based on the extensive news coverage of this week’s court ruling against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one would think that the sky is falling on efforts to resist FTC enforcement actions relating to data security. Adweek wrote that the case is “a test for…

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Pointing fingers, Thursday edition – U.S. Info Search tells its side

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Dissent

On April 8, this blog published a post concerning the Court Ventures breach that questioned whether Experian was getting a bad rap for a breach that started with Court Ventures and its reciprocal data sharing agreement with U.S. Info Search. Unbeknownst to DataBreaches.net at the time, U.S. Info Search had issued a press release the…

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Deltek suffers cyber attack putting 80,000 employees of vendors at risk

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Dissent

Jason Miller reports: About 80,000 employees of federal contractors are at risk of identity theft after a hacker broke into business research firm Deltek’s GovWin IQ system. In an email to vendors, which Federal News Radio obtained and was confirmed by Deltek, Mike Corkery, the company’s president and CEO, said it discovered on March 13…

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Whitehat hacker goes too far, gets raided by FBI, tells all

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher reports on an interesting revelation concerning the second data breach at the University of Maryland: A whitehat hacker from the Baltimore suburbs went too far in his effort to drive home a point about a security vulnerability he reported to a client. Now he’s unemployed and telling all on reddit. David Helkowski was working…

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