R. Scott Moxley reports: A brazen Orange County identity theft ring that stole more than $400,000 from two Vons grocery stores in 2015 before a U.S. Secret Service investigation resulted this week in a 75-month federal prison punishment for one of the conspirators. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter allowed both federal prosecutors and 26-year-old…
Georgia Accuses Homeland Security Of Attempting To Hack State’s Election Database
From the we-re-from-the-government-and-we’re-here-to-help-you dept., Tyler Durden reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is anxiously wondering, as are we, why someone with a Department Of Homeland Security IP address would try to hack into his State’s voter registration database. Even though DHS offered cyber security help to states prior to the election, the Wall Street Journal notes…
Japanese hosting company Kagoya hacked; credit card data stolen
Waqas reports: Kagoya, a famous hosting service provider in Japan has suffered a security breach in which personal and financial data of its customers has been stolen. In an email to their customers, Kagoya stated that the hack attack was discovered this month after an in-house screening which revealed that customers who used their credit cards between April 1, 2015,…
Argentinian government site hacked after they didn’t respond to warnings
Another day, another entity that gets hacked and their data dumped because they ignored warnings, it seems. But for reasons that are unclear to me, Softpedia seems to be making a low-level breach sound like something much more than it appears to be. Bogdan Popa reports: The official website of the Argentinian Ministry of Industry…
UK: Patient claims Musgrove Park Hospital breached her privacy by showing photos of her recovering foot without consent
Amy Cole reports: A woman has hit out at Musgrove Park Hospital after photos of her recovering foot were used in a training seminar without her consent. Read more about what happened on Somerset County Gazette. Some of the commenters on that site were not particularly sympathetic to her complaint.
University of Vermont notifies some of stolen USB drive
The University of Vermont has been notifying some individuals that a USB drive with their information was in an employee’s purse that was stolen. The university learned of the theft on September 15, and the employee notified the police. The USB drive reportedly contained the following types of information: Completed UVM disclosure notices that had the employees’…