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Help, please: If anyone has a copy of the ransom note sent to PowerSchool in December 2024 or to PowerSchool clients on or about May 7, 2025, please email me a copy or upload it to me on Signal. I want to see not only the body, but the full header and … Continue reading Help, please: Seeking copies of the PowerSchool ransom email(s)
Jim Bronskill reports: The RCMP lost a USB key containing personal information about victims, witnesses and informants, and later learned it was being offered for sale by criminals, the federal privacy watchdog says. A detailed report from the Office o… Continue reading RCMP thumb drive with informant, witness data obtained by criminals: watchdog
Evoke allegedly used Google ads and telemarketing to pretend to be other clinics; court order permanently bans them from similar deceptive conduct On June 10, DataBreaches sent Evoke Wellness in Hilliard, Ohio an inquiry about an insider-wrongdoing bre… Continue reading Evoke Wellness to Pay $1.9 Million to Settle FTC Claims That They Misled Consumers Seeking Substance Use Disorder Treatment
In case you were looking for yet another reminder of the insider threat in the healthcare sector, here’s a report from WBNS in Ohio: Authorities in Hilliard are investigating a widespread fraud and identity theft case involving a former employee … Continue reading Former Hilliard treatment center employee accused of selling patient data on dark web
David Perera reports: President Donald Trump signed Friday an executive order reframing U.S. cybersecurity policy, eliminating what the Republican White House described as “problematic elements” inherited from Democratic administrations. Th… Continue reading Trump Rewrites Cybersecurity Policy in Executive Order
On a daily or weekly basis, DataBreaches highlights insider wrongdoing incidents and the harm they can cause. For more comprehensive compilation and analysis of the topic, readers may be interested in the Insider Threat Incidents For May 2025 report p… Continue reading Resource: Insider Threat reports
Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa: In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africa’s Cyber Crimes Act. Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36), a former employee of Ecentric… Continue reading Za: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail
The strange case of “DR32” just got a bit stranger. It looks like the Australian national will get a plane ticket back to Australia courtesy of Homeland Security. David Kee Crees, an Australian national who had also been known online as “Ab… Continue reading ICE takes steps to deport the Australian hacker known as “DR32”
Bruce Schneier writes: On Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was—and … Continue reading Hearing on the Federal Government and AI
Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that KINGSLEY UCHELUE UTULU … Continue reading Nigerian National Sentenced To More Than Five Years For Hacking, Fraud, And Identity Theft Scheme