From the holy-shit-this-is-bad dept. Dan Warburton reports that a man found a USB stick in the street and plugged it in to a library computer (well, ok, we can discuss that later), but what he found was breath-taking, and not in a good way: 174 documents with 2.5 GB of data that included: The exact…
Category: U.S.
NY: Catholic Charities’ server hacked, possibly as early as 2015
Paul Nelson reports: The personal information of about 4,600 past and present clients and several employees of Catholic Charities may have been exposed after a computer server in the Glens Falls office was hacked, according to Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Albany. It sounds like the hacked server contained some medical information on the…
Attorney: ‘White hat hacker’ tried to get Trump tax returns
Michael Kunzelman reports: A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns says he is a benevolent “white hat hacker” who tried to test and report a security flaw in a government website. Jordan Hamlett tried to discover “out of sheer curiosity” whether Trump’s tax information could be accessed through…
AZ Board of Education discloses FERPA incident, sends veiled threat to recipient of disclosed material?
The Arizona State Board of Education has notified parents on a breach: Whoops: The State Board of Education says it “inadvertently” released student information when it released records on A-F grading appeals. pic.twitter.com/jwHManpAbQ — Rachel Leingang (@rachelleingang) October 26, 2017 So here’s the thing: this is the state’s error in responding to a FOIA request…
Midland County notifies residents of data breach
Violet Trevizo reports: The Midland County District Attorney is warning residents after their third-party payment system was hacked. According to a press release, information entered into a third-party payment system could have been compromised back on Sept. 6 due to a security breach. Since the forensic investigation was not conducted by the vendor, Midland County…
Equifax Was Warned
Last year, a security researcher alerted Equifax that anyone could have stolen the personal data of all Americans. The company failed to heed the warning. Great reporting by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on Motherboard. Go read it all.