SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Although it has no confirmation that personal information was acquired without authorization, Tomo Drug Testing (“Tomo”) in Springfield, Missouri announced today that it has taken action after becoming aware of an incident in which an unknown third party gained access to a database storing customer information. Out of an…
Mikhy Farrera-Brochez sentenced to two years’ jail over Singapore HIV patient data leak
Charissa Yong reports: American Mikhy Farrera-Brochez was sentenced on Friday (Sept 27) to two years in jail for using a stolen HIV database from Singapore to extort from the Singapore Government. A Kentucky federal court had earlier in June convicted Farrera-Brochez, 34, of two counts of extortion in two e-mails sent on Jan 22 and…
After two nights in jail, St. Louis lawyer ordered to pay $775,000 to her former firm for copying client files
Joel Currier reports that a former law firm employee who allegedly helped herself to copies of 22,000 files one week before she resigned for a new position elsewhere, has been ordered to pay her former employee more than $775,000. St. Louis lawyer Chelsea Merta, who was found in contempt of court earlier this year, has…
Attackers Combine Attacks Against RDP with Ransomware
Fahmida Y. Rashid writes: Ransomware attacks are increasingly using the Remote Desktop Protocol as the initial entry vector, taking advantage of the fact that many enterprises struggle to balance the risks of exposing RDP and the advantages of being able to access machines in multiple locations. The Institute for Critical Infrastructure and Technology highlighted the…
NY: Joint Statement from the Town of Crawford Police Department and the Pine Bush Central School District
September 26, 2019 Joint Statement from the Town of Crawford Police Department and the Pine Bush Central School District On the morning of Thursday, Sept. 26, the Pine Bush School District and the Town of Crawford Police were alerted that someone had successfully hacked the posting for Crispell Middle School on a popular computer program…
Dunkin’ Donuts says there’s ‘no basis’ for lawsuit over 2015 security incident
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Dunkin Donuts has responded to the lawsuit filed by the NYS Attorney General with a statement to them that said, in part, that there’s “absolutely no basis” for the lawsuit, and that they were “shocked and disappointed” by the New York Attorney General’s Office decision to move forward with litigation. Read…