A 17-year-old student has been charged with hacking into a high school’s computer network, causing the system to shut down, police said. The teenage boy has been charged with felony intentional damage to property after hacking into O’Gorman High School‘s computer network Thursday morning. He was arrested that afternoon, police said. Read more on Argus…
Former Fort Campbell assistant IG pleads guilty to ID theft, bank fraud
Tavia D. Green reports: A Fort Campbell active duty officer entered a guilty plea to stealing the identity of other soldiers, applying for loans and using the money for his personal benefit. James Robert Jones, 43, of Woodlawn, Tennessee pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger‘s court in connection with a scheme…
Healthcare Dives Into Big Data
Alison Diana reports: With the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), many healthcare professionals for the first time got centralized access to patient records. Now they’re figuring out how to use all this information. Although the healthcare industry has been slow to delve into big data, that might be about to change. At stake:…
OR: Portland radio contestants data breached
Amy Frazier reports: Entercom, the owner of eight radio stations in the Portland area, had data containing personal information from listeners and staff stolen from a car in late February. As many as 13,000 people are affected. Officials with Entercom alerted Portland police after the theft happened on February 28 on SE 17th between Burnside…
About 50K transactions, other data, compromised in three-month breach
Adam Greenberg reports: Arizona-based Gingerbread Shed Corporation is notifying customers that an unauthorized individual gained access to its systems for roughly three months and may have compromised about 50,000 transactions, as well as other data. Read more on SC Magazine. In addition to California, this incident was also reported to Vermont residents.
After data breach, Bitly enables 2-factor authentication
Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…