Employees at the Outback Steakhouse in Northridge, California are learning that their personal information is in the hands of burglars. In a break-in that occurred on the evening of August 6, 2015, computer equipment including the point of sale computer and back office computer were stolen. A letter from T-Bird Restaurant Group, the firm that manages that franchise,…
UK: Kettering General Hospital ‘investigating’ email data breach
Doug Drinkwater reports: Kettering General Hospital‘s IT security has been breached by a well-known Russian hacking group, which has started using the hospital’s email server to send spam emails advertising illegal goods on the dark web according to penetration tester and social engineering expert Richard De Vere, principal consultant for the AntiSocial Engineer Ltd, SCMagazineUK.com can exclusively reveal…
UK: Essex police officer dismissed for gross misconduct
SFP reports: A panel chaired by Assistant Chief Constable Maurice Mason found that Dc Lee Pollard, who was based in the Child Abuse Investigation Team, had breached standards of behaviour in relation to honesty and integrity and confidentiality. In October 2013, he accessed, copied and disclosed another officer’s computerised application for a job promotion without…
Watchdog probe after Invest NI hit by series of data breaches
Simon Rowe reports: Invest NI has been hit by a series of data breaches, with two incidents leading to the disclosure of high-risk information, it can be revealed. […] There were six incidents of unauthorised disclosure of confidential data in the past 12 months alone. In the past five years, Invest NI has reported the…
AU: Compromised medical files used in Medicare scam
Megan Drapalski reports: A number of Macarthur region residents are victims of a Medicare scam that has resulted in suspected identity and monetary theft. Five medical facilities in Mt Annan, Holsworthy, Campbelltown, Eagle Vale and Harrington Park have had their medical records compromised. Campbelltown Local Area Command crime manager Det-Insp Greg Inger said police searched a…
SONY HACK WAS WAR says FBI, and ‘we’re still struggling to hire talent’
Alexander J. Martin reports: Yesteryear’s hack of Sony Pictures was an act of war, stated FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Wallach, who delivered the FBI’s gradation system of cybercriminals to net security conference Cloudsec on Thursday, 17 September. US agencies have fingered the North Korean government for the Sony attack repeatedly, initially to much scorn as the nation is…