A Las Vegas woman is charged with operating an identity theft lab after police said they found a cache of stolen mail, medical records from cancer patients and Social Security numbers in her possession. Las Vegas Justice Court records show that Diane Dove, 40, faces a single felony count of establishing or possessing a financial…
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Texas Says Court System Was Subject to Ransomware Attack
Tina Davis reports: Texas said its court system has been hit by a ransomware attack. The state said the attack was discovered Friday and that it’s not going to paying ransom. The Office of Court Administration said that filings and research are still available and there was no indication any personal information was compromised.The “branch…
Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf
Brian Krebs reports: Diebold Nixdorf, a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. The company says the hackers never touched its ATMs or customer networks, and that the intrusion only affected its corporate network. Read more on KrebsonSecurity.com
15-year-old hacker and crew of ‘evil geniuses’ accused of $24 million crypto theft
Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg reports: A 15-year-old hacker and his crew of “evil computer geniuses” stole nearly $24 million in cryptocurrency from an adviser to blockchain companies, according to a lawsuit filed in New York. Michael Terpin claims his phone was hacked and his money stolen in 2018 by a ring led by Westchester…
US Marshals says prisoners’ personal information taken in data breach (updated)
Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at the U.S. Marshals Service exposed the personal information of current and former prisoners, TechCrunch has learned. A letter sent to those affected, and obtained by TechCrunch, said the Justice Department notified the U.S. Marshals on December 30, 2019 of a data breach affecting a public-facing server storing personal…
Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead – sources
Jack Stubbs and Christopher Bing report: Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus. Read more on Reuters.