Diana Goovaerts reports: In its earnings report for the six months ended September 30, 2015, Experian posted a charge of $20 million stemming from its response to an October security breach that exposed the data of millions of T-Mobile customers. According to the report, the “one-off costs” came from Experian’s response to the hack, which included notifying impacted individuals,…
Former North Bend Medical Center employee pleads guilty to identity theft
The World reports: Hundreds of charges against a former North Bend Medical Center employee were whittled down to 33, and she eventually pleaded guilty to 17. On April 5, 39-year-old Sarah Sluder was hit with more than 100 charges of tampering with drug records and more than 100 charges of forgery and aggravated identity theft when she…
Alleged NullCrew hacker has bond revoked
This time it’s accurate. Alleged NullCrew member and hacker Timothy French has had his bond revoked for violating its terms by using his laptop and connecting to the Internet. He was caught because he was using wi-fi while in his car at a McDonald’s. Read more on Chicago Sun-Times.
You Only Need One Password to Access the Allegedly Hacked Law Enforcement Databases
Meant to post this one yesterday, but got sidetracked. It’s a great reminder of how if you try to make things more user-friendly, you may also significantly compromise security – and in this case a LOT of government files that should be secured better. Aliya Sternstein reports: The U.S. government recently lassoed together a bunch of intelligence…
More websites hit by Armada Collective DDoS blackmail attacks, but won’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: An online criminal gang calling itself the “Armada Collective” has been demanding that online businesses pay thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, or face having their websites brought to their knees by crippling internet attacks. And, as the DDoS experts at Akamai point out, it is online companies who have the most to lose…
Ca: WorkSafeNB apologizes to 3,022 injured workers for privacy breach
CBC reports that too much information sharing went on when WorkSafeNB provided data to to Corporate Research Associates. The breach was not the polling firm’s fault, but WorkSafeNB’s, for providing details the contractor did not need and should not have been sent. WorkSafeNB has sent out more than three thousand letters of apology over a serious…