Tara Mapes reports: A District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has tossed all 13 counts in data breach case against a grocery store, noting the plaintiffs were too general in their allegations. The Community Bank of Trenton, University of Illinois Employees Credit Union, First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana, and Southpointe Credit Union…
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OMC Targeted in Latest Leak involving Santa Clara University
Sophie Mattson & Jenni Sigl report: In the latest breach of cybersecurity on campus, a trove of internal documents from the Office of Marketing and Communications were leaked by the anonymous hacker SCUWatch. On Oct. 17, this newspaper received an email from an unknown sender containing a file folder labeled “OMC_Leak.” The anonymous sender, who…
Accused hospital computer hacker at Wyatt wages hunger strike
Denise Lavoieap reports: The man who acknowledges he attacked the computer network at world-renowned Boston children’s hospital two years ago, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars, is unapologetic and now waging a hunger strike in prison as he awaits trial. Martin Gottesfeld claims the hospital hacking was to protest the treatment of a teenage…
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Fox10 reports: A medical marijuana dispensary is conducting an investigation into how sensitive patient information ended up in a pile of trash on a public sidewalk. The man who found the medical records believes this is a breach of patient privacy. The documents weren’t shredded and were laying out in the open. Somehow, trash from…
Whoops: Pro-Donald Trump super PAC publishes donor credit card numbers
Dave Levinthal reports: A pro-Donald Trump super PAC needs to make its accounting practices great again — if they ever were in the first place. Great America PAC on Thursday night erroneously published the credit card numbers and expiration dates belonging to 49 donors, a Center for Public Integrity review of its latest Federal Election Commission campaign finance disclosure…
Yevgeniy Nikulin indicted for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring
From the U.S.A.O. press release: OAKLAND – A federal grand jury in Oakland indicted Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin yesterday for obtaining information from computers, causing damage to computers, trafficking in access devices, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett….