From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: In November 2021, Law Enforcement Seized Over 50,676 Bitcoin Hidden in Devices in Defendant JAMES ZHONG’s Home; ZHONG Has Now Pled Guilty to Unlawfully Obtaining that Bitcoin From the Silk Road Dark Web in 2012 Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District…
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NY: Attempted cyberattack leads to internet shutdown at Albany schools
Kathleen Moore reports: The Albany City School District’s computer systems were repeatedly attacked over the weekend, but school officials said no data was stolen. However, the technology team cut off the district’s connection to the internet on Sunday in response to the attacks. Teachers and students were advised Monday that they could not use the…
Vendor Hack Tied to 20 Anesthesiology Practice Breaches
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A hacking incident at a New York-based administrative services firm has resulted in a growing list of anesthesiology practices reporting breaches that so far have affected the personal information of about 430,000 people. Somnia Inc., in Harrison, New York, is a physician-owned anesthesia management services firm that also appears to have…
A state-appointed receiver is investigating a phishing scam that drained $400K from Chester’s coffers
Vinny Vella reports: A phishing scam siphoned more than $400,000 from Chester in June, and the state-appointed receiver who is handling the beleaguered city’s finances wants to know why his office wasn’t notified until two weeks ago. In a memo sent to Mayor Thaddeus Kirkland and Chester’s city council on Monday, Michael T. Doweary said…
SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit, and it’s also expecting to be slapped with an enforcement action by Uncle Sam – both related to its infamous 2020 supply chain security fiasco, according to the software maker’s most recent US regulatory filing. At the end of…
LinkedIn Scores Partial Win in Long-Running Data Scraping Feud
Andrea Vittorio reports: A workforce analytics firm breached LinkedIn Corp.‘s user agreement by scraping data and using fake accounts to fuel its now-defunct business, a federal court in San Francisco ruled in a lengthy dispute that’s on a path to trial. The ruling, made public Friday, represents a partial win for LinkedIn in a case that…