The following press release was issued by the National Crime Agency today: A computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of user accounts from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield, accessed and stole the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system, as well…
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Former Durango Family Medicine patients warned of security breach
Jonathan Romeo reports: Former patients of Durango Family Medicine were alerted last week of a breach of private health information, which could include such things as medical conditions and social histories. On June 6, Terry Cipoletti, an attorney with Caplan & Earnest LLC, sent out a letter about the security breach, saying Durango Family Medicine…
Oklahoma U. shuts down file sharing service after failing to protect thousands of students’ records
Dana Branham reports: OU unintentionally exposed thousands of students’ educational records — including social security numbers, financial aid information and grades in records dating to at least 2002 — through lax privacy settings in a campus file-sharing network, violating federal law. The university scrambled to safeguard the files late Tuesday after learning The Daily had…
Washington State Uni notifies those affected by stolen hard drive
PULLMAN, Wash., June 9, 2017 — Today, Washington State University (WSU) announced that it is addressing a security incident involving certain community members’ personal information. Though there is no evidence the personal information has been accessed or misused, WSU is notifying impacted individuals and offering free identity protection services to those individuals whose personal information may have…
NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam
Carla Field reports: A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam. Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Korzelius, who owns Western…
UCF seeks to dismiss computer hack lawsuit
Gabrielle Russon has an update on breach litigation involving the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five people whose Social Security numbers were compromised in the school’s data hack last year. In February 2016, UCF revealed there was a security breach involving 63,000 current and…