Mike Masnick writes: Last fall we were happy to see the 9th Circuit rule against LinkedIn in its CFAA case against HiQ. If you don’t recall, the CFAA is the “anti-hacking” law that has been widely abused over the years to try to shut down perfectly reasonable activity. At issue is whether “scraping” information violates a…
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Northeast Radiology notifies patients of PACS data security incident
Note: Northeast Radiology issued a press release yesterday about a data security incident that their healthcare management services provider, Alliance HealthCare Services, notified them about. DataBreaches.net noted that Alliance notified Northeast Radiology on January 11, 2020 — the day after TechCrunch reported updated research on the problem with exposed PACS leaking protected health information. Although…
Mistrial declared at federal trial of accused CIA leaker Joshua Schulte
Ben Feuerherd and Jorge Fitz-GibbonMarch report: A Manhattan federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a former CIA programmer accused of turning over a trove of secret documents to Wikileaks. US District Judge Paul Crotty made the call in the case of accused leaker Joshua Schulte after the jury declared itself “extremely…
NC: Durham City and County services targeted in cyber attack, 80 servers taken offline
Elaina Athans reports: Whether you call the Durham Police Station or the city’s fire department, you’ll get the same message, a recording that plays, “line has been disconnected.” It’s the result of widespread hacking. Durham city officials said 80 servers were taken offline after a cyber malware attack late Friday night. Read more on ABC11.
WA: Former Orting schools IT employee charged with computer trespass, malicious mischief
Alexis Krell reports: A former Orting School District IT employee who resigned after being accused of improperly using district money now has been charged with first-degree computer trespass and third-degree malicious mischief. Charging papers filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court accuse 43-year-old Jason Irvin Rudolph of changing the password to his former wife’s work…
Former DHS Acting Inspector General Indicted for Stealing Database with Personnel Information
Mariam Baksh reports: A federal grand jury indicted a former acting inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security and his former subordinate in connection with the theft of proprietary software and databases containing government employees’ personal information for the purpose of defrauding the U.S. government, according to a Justice Department announcement. The Justice Department…