Caroline Hudson reports: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has revealed a possible data breach on business clients’ information for the Paycheck Protection Program. The breach occurred on April 22, as BofA uploaded PPP applications onto the U.S. Small Business Administration’s test platform, according to a filing with the California Attorney General’s Office. The limited-access…
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Kentucky unemployment website experienced April data breach
Another state has reported a breach or leak involving a state portal for filing unemployment claims. Fox19 reports: Kentucky officials reported Thursday what Gov. Andy Beshear described as a “data breach” in the state’s unemployment insurance web portal. The so-called breach took place on April 23, according to a release from Kentucky’s Education and Workforce…
Minneapolis city systems temporarily brought down by cyberattack
Maggie Miller reports: City government systems in Minneapolis were temporarily brought down by a cyberattack early Thursday at the same time the city was grappling with raging protests over the police killing of George Floyd. A spokesperson for the city told The Hill that some of the city’s public websites and systems were temporarily shut down…
Capital One Must Turn Over Mandiant’s Forensics Report
Jeremy Kirk reports: Capital One has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over the results of a digital forensics investigation into its 2019 data breach, which has been sought by plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The report could provide further insight into what went wrong in one of the most significant breaches of…
MA: New York City Man Charged with Hacking, Credit Card Trafficking, and Money Laundering Conspiracies
A New York City man was charged Tuesday with conspiracies to engage in computer hacking, trafficking in stolen payment card numbers, and money laundering. Vitalii Antonenko, 28, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computer networks and to traffic in unauthorized access devices, and one count of money laundering conspiracy….
Michigan State hit by ransomware threatening leak of student and financial data
Benjamin Freed reports: Michigan State University is being targeted by a ransomware attack carried out by a hacker claiming to have stolen files, including students’ personal information, with the threat of publishing them online if a bounty is not paid. A post appeared Wednesday on a blog affiliated with NetWalker, a relatively newer form of…