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Capital One Hack Prosecution Raises New and Old Questions about Adequacy of CFAA

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

Timothy H. Gray, Ethan Kisch and Michael F. Buchanan of Patterson Belknap write: On August 28, 2019, almost a month after Paige A. Thompson was arrested based on allegations that she hacked into servers rented by Capital One Financial Corporation, a criminal indictment was returned charging her with one count each of computer and wire…

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Student pleads guilty to IRS hack attempt for Trump tax returns

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Dissent

Charlie Osborne reports: The subject of past tax returns remains a sore issue for US President Trump and one student who attempted to take matters into his own hands may be facing jail time for his efforts. Andrew Harris, a previous student at Haverford College, tried to hack his way into systems belonging to the…

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Ransomware caused outages at RPS 205, could last days

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

WFIR in Illinois reports that Rockford Public Schools Dist. 205 suffered a ransomware attack that caused the widespread outages that began Friday. The district is not sharing details about what type of ransomware or how much ransom was demanded — and whether they have paid it. But schools remain open while the district continues to…

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Premier Family Medical in Utah notifying 320,000 patients of ransomware incident

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

Premier Family Medical in Utah is notifying 320,000 patients of a ransomware incident that they disclosed in August. The incident has now been posted on HHS’s public breach tool after the physician group notified HHS several days ago. In an August 30th notice on their website, practice explained that on July 8, they experienced a…

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LinkedIn Can’t Block Analytics Company From Scraping Profiles

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

Wendy Davis reports: LinkedIn can’t rely on a 33-year-old anti-hacking law to prevent prevent the analytics firm HiQ Labs from mining data, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. The ruling, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, leaves in place an injunction that requires LinkedIn to allow publicly available data…

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Undisclosed number of Boy Scouts and their parents had their information exposed by Trails End

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Dissent

Katie Peralta reports: A partner of the Boy Scouts of America inadvertently exposed the personal information of children and their parents last month. What happened: Boy Scouts nationwide sell popcorn to raise funds for activities like camping trips — just like Girl Scouts sell cookies. To facilitate the sales process, Boy Scouts of America uses…

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