Brad Edwards reports: An exclusive CBS 2 investigation revealing Cook County failed to protect the public’s personal information has prompted the Commissioner to take action. For years, the private information of anyone issued a traffic citation in the state of Illinois has been readily available to anyone who asks for it, CBS 2 reports. An…
Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225,000 in Credit
Jacey Fortin reports: Hundreds of prison inmates in Idaho found a way to add hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of credit to their personal accounts, officials discovered this month. The prisoners were not inflating their bank accounts, but rather their JPay accounts. JPay is a service that inmates can use to communicate with the…
Patient data found in Helsinki street
YLE reports: Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports that a trove of patient data including names and personal ID numbers has been found in the Pasila district of Helsinki. The data is from patient records from a contraception clinic from the 1980s and 1990s. An IS reader spotted the papers and found six documents on Asemapäällikönkatu, before…
Dutch Court Sentences Bitcoin Ransomware Creators to Community Service
Anna Baydakova reports: The developers behind the CoinVault and BitCryptor ransomware were sentenced to 240 hours of community service in a Dutch court on Thursday. Melvin and Dennis van de B., aged 25 and 21, were convicted of accusing (sic) 1,259 computers in the Netherlands and other Western European countries with the ransomware and demanding…
Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe
Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…
KS: Garden City Community College investigating possible email breach
Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…