Adam Sexton reports: A longtime Plaistow town employee has been accused of accessing the email accounts of the town’s fire chief and two other co-workers, according to court documents. Leigh Komornick, the town planner in Plaistow, is facing fraud and identity theft charges. In newly released court documents, police accuse Komornick of breaking into the…
Attackers Turn Focus to PoS Vendors
Brian Prince reports: The recently reported attack on Charge Anywhere puts the payment solutions provider on a list of PoS vendors attacked this year. This week, the payment gateway solution provider Charge Anywhere revealed that it had been victimized by a data breach that may have compromised data going as far back as 2009. Charge Anywhere provides…
AL: Former Flowers Hospital employee sentenced in data theft for tax refund fraud case
He tried – unsuccessfully – to withdraw his guilty plea, and now Kamarian Millender has been sentenced to two years in prison and $18,915 restitution for his role in stealing patient data from Flowers Hospital for use in a tax refund fraud scheme. A lawsuit against the hospital over the breach survived a motion to…
FL: Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County announces breach at Family Central, Inc. (updated)
The Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County posted the following announcement on their web site yesterday: The Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County has learned of a breach in the security of the electronic database that manages the personal information of individuals applying for or receiving services from the coalition. This breach occurred…
The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco, Belgacom
Ryan Gallagher reports: When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. It was in the summer…
DOJ Misleads Court About Medical And Financial Records In Appeals Over NSA Surveillance
Jonathan Mayer writes: Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in a challenge to the NSA’s phone metadata program. While watching, I noticed some quite misleading legal claims by the government’s counsel. I then reviewed last month’s oral arguments in the D.C. Circuit, and I spotted a similar assertion. In both cases, the government attorney waved away…