Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, of Seattle was sentenced yesterday to 95 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a crime spree that involved both physical burglary, and hacking into computer systems to steal personal and business information used in a variety of thefts and frauds. The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney…
Oil Giants Shell, BP and others hacked and data leaked by @le4ky
Ex @UG member le4ky has come out of a few weeks silence to release a leak from yet more oil giants. The leak is dubbed as #SaveTheArctic – Phase 2 and has set sights on Shell, BP, gazprom and rosneft. The attack was announced via twitter and was posted to pastebin.com with a short message. All leaked…
Dignity for the dead at the Lincoln Regional Center
Since 2007, I have been covering the lawsuit against Nebraska over the identities of patients buried at state mental hospitals anonymously. It was a case that pitted open records against the privacy – as such – of the dead and their descendants, and in my earliest posts, I argued for privacy and non-disclosure. But here’s…
In: IIM-A suspects data theft from its servers
Haven’t seen anything on Pastebin or Twitter claiming responsibility, so I have no idea if this report is related to any kind of hacktivism, but Press Trust of India reports: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police “apprehending” theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised…
Jesse Jackson Jr. Psych Disorder Is a Political Issue We Should Worry About
Matthew Rozsa writes: To what extent does the public have the right to know about the mental health of its politicians? This is what we should be asking ourselves after the revelation that Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is receiving “intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder.” Although his doctor claims that Jackson…
Hospitals Finding Patients On Google, Facebook
Phil Galewitz When the University of Pennsylvania Health System sought new patients for its lung transplant service last year, it turned to Facebook and Google. The results of the $20,000 advertising campaign on the websites exceeded administrators’ expectations. During a few weeks in August and September, more than 4,600 people clicked on the ads and…