Lynzi Deluccia reports: The GE engineer accused of stealing secret information from his work was back in court on Thursday. Official court documents show the Niskayuna man is in charge of other companies in China that use the same turbine technology as GE. A 10-page affidavit reveals Zheng was a master at taking the information,…
Category: U.S.
Was LabMD Hacked? A Key Issue in Lawsuit Against FTC Lawyers
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: Did LabMD, the now-defunct cancer testing company, expose sensitive patient information with shoddy data security practices as U.S. regulations have charged, or was the company victimized by a private forensics firm extorting it for business – raising the troubling question of whether the entire case against LabMD was…
Forum post claims breach of 850k users’ information; leak from recruitmilitary.com?
Lee Johnstone reports on a leak involving a non-profit organization that tries to match employers with job seekers who are veterans: Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop…
Joint Base Charleston notifies airmen of possible breach of personal information
Harve Jacobs reports: A mistake made at a medical clinic caused a potential breach of personal information of current and former airmen at Joint Base Charleston. The base says folders of paper records were improperly created at a base clinic. A former airman says he received a letter from the 628th medical group mentioning a “potential…
Jury Convicts Anonymous Hacker Who DDoSed Children’s Hospital, Later Got Lost at Sea
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Anonymous hacker collective was found guilty this week in a trial for a series of cyber-attacks the man had conducted in 2014, including some aimed at children’s hospitals. The hacker —Martin Gottesfeld, 32, of Sommerville, Massachusetts— was one of the main driving forces behind the #OpJustina Anonymous campaign….
Department of Human Services Alerts HHS and Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error
If you are like me, you might not realize from their original headline, “Department of Human Services Alerts Pennsylvanians of Compass System Error” that they’re talking about a breach involving PHI. I just figured North was pointing South for a while or something like that…. Anyway, here is the notice that explains their recent report…