There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog: Yolanda Jean Perkins, 48, of Laurel, a former driver’s license examiner for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety; Lorena Gomez, 33, of Laurel; and Elmer Enrique Martinez-Velasquez a/k/a Jose Martell Rivera, 32, an illegal alien from Mexico residing in Albertville, Alabama, were sentenced in…
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Attacks on cities’ systems reported
Fox10 in Phoenix reports that the City of Phoenix’s internet system was under attack by hackers over the weekend. And the email system for the city of Mobile, Alabama was under heavy attack last week by hackers who used the system to send out spam. No personal information was reportedly compromised in either of the attacks,…
Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
Trial in massive ID theft case postponed
AP reports that the trial for nine people from Alabama and Georgia accused in a massive identity theft case has been postponed at the joint request of the prosecution and defense. The nine are accused of stealing IDs from the Alabama Department of Corrections, a credit card processing center in Columbus, Georgia, and the military…
Flowers Hospital data breach suit: Plaintiffs to amend complaint
Patrick Ouellette writes: A former Flowers Hospital lab technician was indicted in early September on charges that he stole eight patients’ protected health information (PHI) as part of an alleged tax fraud scheme from June 2013 to February 2014. As a result of the breach, five affected patients filed a punitive class-action lawsuit in federal court, referencing a violation…
D&J Optical sues former employees for misappropriation of patient/proprietary information
D&J Optical in Alabama reported a breach to HHS that appears to have involved a hacking/IT incident on November 15, 2013. It is not clear when they first reported the breach to HHS, but it was only added to HHS’s breach tool on August 25. The incident reportedly affected 1,100 patients. In attempting to investigate the…