Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel report that Edward Snowden successfully socially engineered employees at the NSA into giving him their login credentials: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to…
Category: Breaches
Attorney general’s office found records violations in Monroeville
Jonathan D. Silver reports: A state law that protects criminal history data was violated numerous times in Monroeville, an audit by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office revealed. In a letter dated Tuesday to Monroeville officials, Executive Deputy Attorney General Lawrence M. Cherba noted that his office could seek court-imposed penalties for violations of the Criminal…
Goodwill caught selling donors’ personal information
Bob Segall reports: Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana has launched an internal investigation after 13 Investigates discovered the charity has been selling tax returns, medical records, social security numbers and other sensitive information mistakenly donated by its customers. The personal information WTHR found for sale at Goodwill Outlet Stores has angered donors, shocked law enforcement and…
FBI targets ‘cheating lover’ hacker Carlos Enrique Perez-Melaram of El Salvador
AP reports: It’s not just the US government intercepting your communications. It could be a nosy relative or jealous partner. Among the five people added this week to the FBI’s list of “most wanted” cybercriminals is a former San Diego college student who developed an $US 89 program called “Loverspy” or “Email PI.” Sold online…