In a statement issued a day before the survey was published, Jayd Henricks, the group’s president, said, “It’s not about heterosexual or homosexual priests and seminarians. It is behavior that harms everyone involved, on some level and in some way, and is a testimony against the ministry of the church.
No US data privacy law prohibits the sale of this type of data.
On Wednesday, the District of Columbia Health Insurance Exchange confirmed it was working with law enforcement to investigate an alleged leak after a database containing personal information of about 170,000 people was leaked. offered for sale on a hacker forum popular with cybercriminals. The breach reported in DC Health Link, as the exchange calls it, could expose the sensitive personal data of lawmakers, their employees and their families. Thousands of exchange participants work in the U.S. House and Senate, and a sample of the stolen dataset reviewed by CyberScoop says victims of the breach also range from lobbyists to coffee shop workers.
According to a letter to the head of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the FBI apparently purchased some of the data stolen from the dark web. Although the FBI has yet to determine the extent of the breach, according to the letter, “the size and scope of House customers affected could be extraordinary.”
A Politico report published on March 7 details how Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance company, turned over law enforcement videos captured by 20 Ring cameras of an Ohio man against his will. In December, the Hamilton Police Department requested a warrant for footage, including from inside the man’s home, as they investigated his neighbor. According to the report, after he voluntarily provided the police with a video showing the street outside his home, the police used the courts to access more footage against his will.
Although law enforcement agencies often request warrants for digital data, these warrants generally relate to the subject of a particular investigation. However, as network home surveillance cameras have become increasingly popular, sometimes covering city blocks, law enforcement is increasingly turning to people completely independent of a case to provide data. According to Politico, the lack of legal checks on what police can request opens the door for police to lawfully acquire footage of a passerby’s interior home.
Following the Politico story, Gizmodo reported that a Ring customer service agent told a concerned customer that Politico’s story was a “hoax” perpetrated by a competitor. In response, an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company does not actually believe the story was a hoax and that the statement was the result of a misunderstanding by the customer support agent. . “We will ensure the agent receives the appropriate coaching,” the spokesperson said.
A former roommate of famous fabulist George Santos told federal authorities that the U.S. Congressman from Long Island, New York, orchestrated a credit card skimming operation in Seattle in 2017. In a statement submitted to authorities and obtained by Politico, the man Brazilian, convicted of credit card fraud and deported from the United States – told the FBI: “Santos taught me how to go through card information and clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to install skimming devices and cameras on ATMs. »
According to the statement, Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha met Santos in 2016 when he rented him a room in his apartment in Florida. There, Santos allegedly taught Trelha how to use credit card cloning equipment and eventually took him to Seattle to begin stealing financial information. “My deal with Santos was 50% for him, 50% for me,” Trelha wrote.
