Seen on the home page of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama: The linked notice states: The United States Attorney’s Office is currently prosecuting cases which allege, among other things, theft of personal identifying information and the use of that personal identifying information to prepare fraudulent tax returns. These alleged thefts…
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Montgomery woman pleads guilty in federal court to stealing the identities of Troy Hospital patients
A follow-up on a previously reported insider breach at Troy Regional. Erin Edgemon reports: Angeline Austin, 41, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the government regarding claims, of count of fraud in connection with identification documents, a count of fraud in connection with computers, and of aggravated identity theft, U.S. District Attorney for…
Southern Environmental Law Center hacked
CBS in Birmingham, Alabama reports a breach involving the Southern Environmental Law Center. The station reports that credit card information, medical information and donor information were acquired and dumped on the Internet, although at the time of this posting, I’m not seeing any data dumps. Personal details also reportedly include addresses, phone, numbers, and client…
Texas Data Breach Amendment Takes Effect; Connecticut On Deck
Steve Satterfield writes: This week, the much talked-about amendments to Texas’s breach notice statute took effect. Wepreviously blogged about these amendments, which are unprecedented in scope. With the amendments, the Texas statute now requires entities doing business in Texas to notify “any individual” whose “sensitive personal information” is acquired in a breach (unless the information is encrypted). The statute makes…
CabinCr3w member sentenced to 27 months in prison (updated)
Steven Kreytak reports that a Galveston man was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. Higinio O. Ochoa III, who pleaded guilty in…
UGNAZI Leader @JoshTheGod and 23 Others Arrested For Credit Card Fraud
Today is an interesting day, the well known hacker collective ugnazi has been breached majorly with the site being seized by federal police and the main member @JoshTheGod or MIR ISLAM who classed himself the lead has been arrested and charged with many cyber related offences. The announcement has come from justice.gov and its related to a 2…