Yagnesh Bharat Mehta reports that there have been two more arrests in a case previously noted on this site. The case involves the theft of biometric data for illegally acquiring food grains meant for registered beneficiaries of the the National Food Security Act. It’s really not clear (to me or law enforcement, it seems) how…
A (Secondary) Education in Data Security
Christina Seda and Peter A. Nelson of Patterson Belknap write: On January 18, 2018, the New York State Education Department (“NYSED”) announced that one of its vendors, Questar Assessment, experienced a data breach resulting in the unauthorized disclosure of personal information from students in five different New York schools. While the data breach reportedly affected…
Pittsburg employees notified after their W-2 data stolen in phishing scheme
CORRECTION: I picked this up incorrectly as Pittsburgh in PA. A kind reader pointed out my error. This was Pittsburg in Kansas! Corrected Post: The City of Pittsburg hasn’t disclosed how many former and current employees had their W-2 data stolen in a phishing scam on January 30, but I’m betting it’s more than a…
Columbia University grad arrested for using key logger software
Robert Abel reports: A Columbia University grad student was arrested for leaving key logger malware on USB sticks left throughout the campus. Bill Liang Lin Wu, 23 was arrested Thursday after he was caught on camera leaving the credential stealing devices on a host of university computers shared by 14 professors. Wu graduated last spring…
NL: Youth, 18, arrested in probe into last week’s tax office cyber attack
An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…
Man sues T-Mobile for allegedly failing to stop hackers from draining his cryptocurrency account
Shannon Liao reports: A man sued T-Mobile on Sunday, claiming that the company’s lack of security allowed hackers to enter his wireless account last fall and steal cryptocoins worth thousands of dollars. Carlos Tapang of Washington state accuses T-Mobile of having “improperly allowed wrongdoers to access” his wireless account on November 7th last year. The…