Sean Gallagher reports: A 27-year old now-former sailor pleaded guilty in a federal court in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 20 to charges of conspiracy after leading a band of hackers in the US and Canada from onboard an aircraft carrier. Nicholas Paul Knight, who was the system administrator for the USS Harry S. Truman’s nuclear reactors department, was…
eBay hit with massive security breach, asks all users to change passwords (updated)
Well, we knew this was coming after a marker for an alert was noticed on PayPal this morning, but now it’s definite: Ebay is asking users to change passwords. Russell Brandom reports: Later today, eBay will begin asking all of its 112 million customers to change their passwords, in the wake of a newly discovered database…
Major School Research and Assessment Provider Hacked
Benjamin Herold reports: The American Institutes for Research, a major research and testing organization with a significant presence in K-12 education in the United States, suffered a serious data breach earlier this month. After one of the organization’s servers was hacked, the sensitive personal information of as many as 6,500 current and former employees, including Social…
NY: Funeral home worker to be questioned in ID theft case at Albany Medical Center
Bryan Fitzgerald provides an update to a breach noted previously on this blog: A longtime funeral home employee will be questioned by investigators on Wednesday about his possible connection to an identity theft ring uncovered earlier this month that allegedly involves an Albany Medical Center Hospital nurse, said Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple. The interrogation,…
FL: Suspected identification theft at Highlands Regional may have led to fraud
Jay Meisel reports: Between 400 and 500 residents of Highlands County may have been defrauded of millions of dollars because of identity theft, Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton said Monday. Benton said the investigation of that possible fraud has targeted five suspects, three of whom were former employees of Highlands Regional Medical Center. Most of…
FTC vs. LabMD hearing starts
Opening statements were held today in FTC vs. LabMD, one of only two data security enforcement cases that have not resulted in a consent order to settle charges. FTC attorney Alain Sheer provided the overview of the FTC’s complaint, alleging that LabMD failed to have a reasonable and appropriate data security program. He was only just into his…