This is a bit different. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Georgia: A Rincon man who portrayed himself as a whistleblower while falsely accusing a former acquaintance of violating patient privacy has been sentenced to federal prison. Jeffrey Parker, 44, of Rincon, Ga., was sentenced to six months in prison by U.S. District…
Hackers have eye on 6 Bangladeshi organisations
Mehedi Hasan reports: Kasablanca, a hacker group, has targeted cyberattacks on at least six well-known Bangladeshi financial and government organisations, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (e-Gov CIRT), the state organisation responsible for securing the country’s cyberspace. The organisations are Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, bKash, BRAC Bank, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Corona.gov.bd. The reason…
UK: Council apologizes for free school meals payment data breach
Email gaffes are still a thing, too. Kevin O’Sullivan reports: A Scottish local authority has apologised for a data breach after sending details of 600 free school meals claimants to ‘multiple’ email accounts. Scottish Borders council sent out the email in an IT blunder as it tried to contact 1,300 residents to inform them of…
NY Department of Financial Services Issues Cyber Fraud Alert to Regulated Entities Using Instant Quote Websites
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On February 16, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a Cyber Fraud Alert (the “Alert”) to regulated entities in light of a growing campaign to steal Nonpublic Information (“NPI”), as defined under New York law, from public-facing websites that provide instant quotes for products like auto insurance (“Instant Quote…
PA: Colonial Park Realty Co t/a Enders Notifies Customers of Data Breach
Colonial Park Realty Co. (Enders Insurance) issued a press release about a data breach that occurred last April when an employee’s email account was compromised. The breach was discovered on May 7, 2020, and they have been investigating since then, it seems, to find out who was impacted. Enders claims that they are notifying “in…
Police investigate racist hack that disrupted Ben Franklin High students’ virtual field trip
KYW reports: Police and the School District of Philadelphia are investigating after a virtual field trip by students at Ben Franklin High School was hacked. The district said three dozen students were subjected to suggestive images and inappropriate language. Read more on Radio.com.