Peter Jamison reports: Internal investigators say a Clearwater police commander used a law enforcement database more than 100 times during a two-year period for “questionable” purposes, inappropriately looking up personal information about individuals including his ex-wife’s boyfriend, a television news reporter and the wives of other police officers. A summary of the internal investigation, obtained…
FBI, city of Akron investigating hacker attack that compromised identities of 8,000 taxpayers
Jenn Strathman reports: Cyber hackers from Turkey hacked into the city of Akron’s website and replaced city messages with politically-motivated ones on Thursday. Also, nearly 8,000 taxpayers had their personal information stolen including their names, addresses, and social security numbers. I don’t know about you, but I would have lead with the theft of the…
Updates to HHS's breach tool (updated)
HHS added 13 more incidents to its breach tool today. Six of them have been reportedly previously on this blog: Hope Hospice IHC Health Services, Inc. dba Intermountain Life Flight. Of note, they reported that that the breach began on October 12, 2009. That’s a long time to go undetected. El Centro Regional Medical Center reported that 189,489 patients…
UK: Essex County Council has 27,000 computer hacker attacks in a year
Just for perspective…. Ben Bland reports: More than 25,000 cyber attacks were carried out against Essex County Council in the past year, it has emerged. It is thought those carrying out the attacks were attempting to access the personal details of people living in Essex, which are held by the authority. The council refused to…
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced In London
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: LulzSec Hacker “Topiary” famously tweeted: “You cannot arrest an idea.” Perhaps not, but in the case of Topiary, revealed to be Jake Davis, now 20, you can be sentenced to 24 months in a “young offenders institute” for two counts of conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer, to be followed…
Medical worker stole patient identities
Debbie Knox of WISH TV in Indiana reports: Greenwood police was the agency that alerted Community Health that they had an employee who was stealing patients’ identities. “A former patient had stated that they had reason to believe that someone had taken their identity,” said Jean Putnam, Vice President at Community Health Network.” Between mid-March…