Sherrie Pief reports: Lewis-Palmer School District 38 officials are mum about the probability that a security breach related to its Infinite Campus platform may have compromised more than 2,000 students’ personal information. Infinite Campus is a software program that stores personal and academic information about students in the district. But wait… the district has known…
In: Raids by Agra drug enforcement dept fail due to leak of information
Anuja Jaiswal reports: An apparent leak from the Food Safety and Drug Department, Agra, resulted in a series of failed raids by it’s Enforcement wing on Tuesday afternoon, as six medical stores in the city, suspected to be selling flavoured “tincture”, which has 90 per cent alcohol content, as a cheap liquor alternative to alcoholics, were…
Lancaster hacker who stole nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and others pleads guilty
Matt Miller reports: A computer hacker who targeted female celebrities could face up to 5 years in prison and $250,000 in fines after pleading guilty to federal charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster, pleaded guilty to a federal hacking charge before U.S. Middle District Senior Judge William W. Caldwell. According to U.S….
Rockhurst University is sued over data breach in phishing scam
So here’s another case where employees are suing their employer after their W-2 data was phished. I wonder how many more lawsuits like this we may see, keeping in mind that I’ve listed over 120 entities whose employees had their W-2 data phished. Joe Robertson reports: A Rockhurst University employee hopes to represent some 1,200…
International ATM skimming network dismantled – Europol
On 18 May 2016, the French Gendarmerie of Pau[1], in close cooperation with the Investigative Unit of the Italian State Police of Imperia[2] and Europol, disrupted an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming and money laundering. Composed mainly of French-Italian nationals, the criminal network used sophisticated ATM skimming devices which allowed them to compromise…
CA: Email gaffe at clinic exposes patients’ names and email addresses
Oops. It appears that somehow, Berkeley Endocrine Clinic had spam sent to a number of its patients. Trying to address that, they sent out an email to all patients. Unfortunately, as Dr. Omar Murad explains, the patients’ names and email addresses showed in the TO: field: On April 22, 2016, my office was subject to a spam…