The Staten Island Advance reports: Thanksgiving 2019 is a day one Stapleton resident will never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. An emergency medical technician posted Jermaine Williams’ confidential medical information and cell-phone number online that night without his consent, a lawsuit alleges. And others saw it, William’s lawyer said. At the time, Williams…
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KS: FBI Employee Indicted for Illegally Removing National Security Documents, Taking Material to Her Home
May 21 – WASHINGTON – An employee of the FBI’s Kansas City Division has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally removing numerous national security documents that were found in her home. Kendra Kingsbury, 48, of Dodge City, Kansas, was charged in a two-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury…
D.C.: Metropolitan Police Department Employee Sentenced for Accepting More than $40,000 in Cash Bribes in Exchange for Personal Identifying Information of Traffic Crash Victims
May 19 – Aaron Willis, 38, of Maryland, was sentenced today to a term of 36 months’ probation, 6 months’ of intermittent incarceration and six months’ home confinement for accepting more than $40,000 in bribes in exchange for unlawfully providing information contained in non-public police paperwork identifying individuals involved in traffic accidents, announced Channing D….
CA: Sierra College victim of ransomware incident
Roseville Today reports that Sierra College has been impacted by a ransomware attack. Yesterday, the college posted the following notice on its site: “We are currently experiencing technical difficulties on the Sierra College website and some other online systems. This is the result of an external ransomware attack on our systems. We are working with…
Justin Sean Johnson, aka TheDearthStar and Dearthy Star, pleads guilty to hacking UPMC and selling stolen data on dark web
There’s an update to the case of a man accused of hacking the human resources databases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center starting in 2014 and stealing the data of 65,000 employees. Many of the employees became victims of identity theft for tax fraud. Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of…
CNA Financial Paid $40 Million in Ransom After March Cyberattack
Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton report: CNA Financial Corp., among the largest insurance companies in the U.S., paid $40 million in late March to regain control of its network after a ransomware attack, according to people with knowledge of the attack. The Chicago-based company paid the hackers about two weeks after a trove of company…