Following up on a previous report… An independent investigation shows no student data was compromised during a suspected breach of Lewis-Palmer School District 38‘s computer system in May, district officials said Wednesday. “Protecting student data is a priority, and we weren’t surprised it was substantiated that no security breach occurred,” said D-38 spokeswoman Julie Stephen….
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Beggars Group Hacked, Warns Customers of Data Breach
Colin Stutz reports: Leading independent record label conglomerate Beggars Group had its online stores hacked in May, with costumers’ confidential information potentially compromised. Matador Direct — which distributes for 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, Young Turks, True Panther, XL Recordings and Beggars Arkive in the United States — sent a letter last week explaining that customers who ordered…
Lamar Smith Seeks OPM Response on Cyber Posture, Data Breaches
See? This is why I get confused by our government. Why is the SCIENCE committee writing to OPM about its breaches? Is it just letter jealousy because every other committee has, too? I cannot think this is a good use of resources. Scott Nicholas reports: House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has asked acting Office of…
Cici’s Pizza: Card Breach at 130+ Locations
Brian Krebs reports: Cici’s Pizza, a Coppell, Texas-based fast-casual restaurant chain, today acknowledged a credit card breach at more than 135 locations. The disclosure comes more than a month after KrebsOnSecurity first broke the news of the intrusion, offering readers a sneak peak inside the sprawling cybercrime machine that thieves used to siphon card data from Cici’s customers…
Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
Tim Johnson reports: The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an Illinois internet retailer: Pay two Bitcoins, or about $500 at the time, and the intruder would “remove all bugs on your shop!” Such demands are…
Baseball Hacking Case Ends with Prison
Jeremy Kirk reports: A former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegally peeking at a player-drafting database for the Houston Astros – a hefty term for a distinctly unique hacking case. Christopher Correa, 36, was accused of illegally accessing Ground Control, a cloud-based database that held…