Nicole Ogrysko reports: The Office of Personnel Management may have paid too much for identity theft and credit monitoring services for victims of the two 2015 cyber breaches. The Government Accountability Office questioned whether the requirement that OPM provide victims of the 2015 breaches with no less than $5 million in identity theft insurance for…
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Former West Fargo Police Chief’s Personal Information Leaked with Personnel Records
TJ Nelson reports: West Fargo is providing its former police chief with credit monitoring. A city spokesperson says Michael Reitan alerted them that some of his personal information was released in documents given to media organizations. The spokesperson says city staff mistakenly missed the information for redaction when preparing the files. Read more on…
Introducing the K-12 Cyber Incident Map
Doug Levin writes: …. I am pleased to introduce and launch the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. It is a visualization of cybersecurity-related incidents reported about U.S. K-12 public schools and districts from 2016 to the present. ‘Cyber’ incidents tracked on the map, include: (a) phishing attacks resulting in the disclosure of personal data; (b) other unauthorized disclosures, breaches…
Tampa man sentenced for his role in data breach at local medical practice
Frances McMorris reports: One of three men indicted last year for stealing the personal patient information from a Tampa medical practice to create fraudulent credit cards and steal tax refunds was sentenced to six years in federal prison Tuesday. Anthony Michael Harris, 26, of Tampa was sentenced for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft by U.S….
Lucchese Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty
Andra Litton reports: A disgruntled ex-employee of Lucchese Boots plead guilty to one count of transmission of a program to cause damage to a computer in federal court after he hacked into the Lucchese computer network after he’d been fired and managed to shut down the company’s e-mail server and application server in the September….
ShowTix4U Security Breach Notification
ACCOUNT SECURITY NOTICE ShowTix4U recently became aware of a potential security incident possibly affecting the personal information of certain individuals who made a payment card purchase on the ShowTix4U.com website. We are providing this notice as a precaution to inform potentially affected individuals about the incident and to call your attention to some steps you…