So we’re beginning to learn a bit more about the Schoolzilla data breach that MacKeeper Security Research Center’s Chris Vickery reported yesterday. Chris had reported that 1.3 million students had their data in the misconfigured Amazon bucket, but he couldn’t be more specific as to where these students came from as he deleted the data…
Category: U.S.
No Business Associate Agreement? $31K Mistake
From HHS: The Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH) has paid the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $31,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and agreed to implement a corrective action plan. CCDH is a small, for-profit health care provider with…
Feds seek 30-year sentence for Russian master hacker convicted in Seattle
Mike Carter reports: In Russian cybercrime mastermind Roman Seleznev, the Department of Justice is boasting it finally caught and convicted a big fish in the often impenetrable world of global computer theft — and now the agency intends to make a lesson of him. Federal prosecutors will ask a Seattle judge Friday to sentence the…
Texas man charged with cyberstalking FBI agent detained without bail
Good Friday turned out not to be a good day for Justin Shafer. The 37 year-old dental IT technician had been arrested on March 31 and charged with cyberstalking an FBI agent and the agent’s family under 18 U.S. Code § 2261A(2)(B). On April 14, he was taken back into custody, this time for violating release conditions. Shafer’s…
Long-sought fugitive admits role in $200M credit card fraud
Jeff Goldman reports: A New York man who had been sought by authorities for nearly four years admitted Tuesday he took part in a scam that defrauded businesses and banks out of more than $200 million. Habib Chaudhry, 49, of Valley Stream, N.Y., pleaded guilty in federal court in Trenton to conspiracy to commit bank…
InterContinental Hotel Chain Breach Expands
Brian Krebs reports: In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that fraud experts at various banks were seeing a pattern suggesting a widespread credit card breach across some 5,000 hotels worldwide owned by InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). In February, IHG acknowledged a breach but said it appeared to involve only a dozen properties. Now, IHG has released…