WLWT reports: A Cincinnati man pleaded guilty after U.S. Attorney Benjamin Glassman said he stole data from a local company and demanded ransom. Carlos Ruiz-Rodriguez, 25, was a call center employee for two years. Glassman said he stole company schematics and client information and told the company he would release it if the company did…
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Sagewood notifies 863 employees and residents of cyber attack
LCS Westminster Partnership IV, LLP d/b/a Sagewood, is reporting what they describe as a ransomware attack without any ransom demand: Sagewood, a retirement community located at 4555 E Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix, has notified 800 current and former residents and the Department of Health and Human Services of a cyber breach. Sagewood promptly investigated the…
Data breach exposed locations of oil industry explosives, handler credentials
Dell Cameron reports: A misconfigured storage device discovered by a security researcher in October left exposed thousands of internal files belonging to an explosives-handling company. The files, which have since been secured, reportedly included details about facilities in three U.S. states where explosives are stored. The leaky file repository belonged to Allied-Horizontal Wireline Services(AHWS), a leading wireline company…
OptumHealth New Mexico notifies 2,006 members of breach
On Nov. 17, OptumHealth New Mexico began notifying members that a flash drive, mailed by an unnamed vendor on September 16, was discovered on September 26 to have been lost in the postal mail. From their FAQ on the incident: The information contained on the flash drive included individuals’ name and a full or partial date of birth,…
AlphaBay vendor, IcyEagle, sentenced to four years and two months imprisonment
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on this site. From the USAO, Northern District of Georgia: Aaron James Glende a.k.a. IcyEagle has been sentenced to four years and two months’ imprisonment for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Glende sold stolen personally identifying information and login credentials on AlphaBay Market, a website…
Barrett Brown leaves prison still chained to a crime he didn’t commit
Dell Cameron reports: Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars. The 35-year-old cause célèbre, convicted in January 2015 after spending more than two years in pretrial confinement, faces a laundry list of post-release restrictions and obligations, including drug treatment, mental health evaluations, and computer monitoring. Read…