Hackers Pull Down a Virginia Cloud, Spy on Syrian Rebels and Get Lost
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Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
In case you missed our coverage this week in ThreatWatch, Nextgov’s regularly updated index of cyber breaches:
Security hole in Syrian opposition site used to spy on dissidents
Hackers have been taking advantage of a bug in Adobe Flash since September 2013 to track citizens complaining about the Assad regime.
Hijacked baby monitor in Ohio stalks terrified tot
Experiences similar to 10-month-old Emma’s ordeal have been reported several times during the past year, as hackers find weaknesses in all sorts of wireless home devices.
Former employee remotely sabotaged Virginia cloud service provider
An Arizona man has been sentenced to 2 years and nine months in jail and 3 years of supervised release, after badmouthing his ex-employer, as well as shutting down a key server and consequently knocking important data offline for hours.
Iowa delivered Medicaid patient records to wrong building
About three months ago, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, a division of the state Department of Human Services, mailed personal information from more than 800 citizens to the incorrect health clinic.
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