Shannon Prather reports: Nearly 118,000 people who receive Ramsey County services may have had some personal or health information compromised when hackers breached the county’s e-mail system in August 2018. County officials had initially said more than 500 people were affected last winter, but officials dramatically increased that number Tuesday after hiring an outside data…
Arrest made in Ecuador’s massive data breach
How many times have you wanted to see someone charged criminally for negligence or leaving data exposed? Well, here you go…. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ecuadorian authorities have arrested the executive of a data analytics firm after his company left the personal records of most of Ecuador’s population exposed online on an internet server. The arrest…
Gootkit malware crew left their database exposed online without a password
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The criminal gang behind the Gootkit malware has made the same mistake that thousands of legitimate companies have made before them in the past years — they left MongoDB databases connected to the internet without a password. The leak allowed security researcher Bob Diachenko to download all group’s data and gain an…
Recidivist Hacker Sentenced for Violating Supervised Release Conditions
Cape Cod Today staff report: A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions. Cameron Lacroix, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf to 15 months in prison, to be…
Former South Elgin nurse gets court supervision for taking sexual images stolen from Naperville patient’s phone
Clifford Ward reports: A male registered nurse from South Elgin who stole sexual photos and videos from the phone of a Naperville woman being treated for substance abuse has been sentenced to court supervision and 20 days at the DuPage County work program. Mark Luis, 36, of the 700 block of Waterside Drive, was found…
Data of 24.3 million Lumin PDF users shared on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The details of over 24.3 million Lumin PDF users have been shared today on a hacking forum, ZDNet has learned from a source. The hacker said they leaked the company’s data after Lumin PDF administrators failed to answer his queries multiple times over the past few months. Read more on ZDNet.