US provides new expanded set of espionage charges against former Twitter...
Campbell Kwan reports: Fresh off dismissing spying charges against two former Twitter employees and another individual on Tuesday, the US government has unfurled a new superseding indictment that...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Testing Platform Cyberattack Case Against Pearson
Kirsten Errick reports that a lawsuit against Pearson stemming from a 2018 breach that they were alerted to in 2019 has been tossed for lack of Article III standing: Judge John Z. Lee of the Northern...
View ArticleAfter ransomware attack, legal services company Epiq faces California privacy...
Sara Merken reports: Lawyers for Epiq Systems Inc have removed a lawsuit to federal court that alleges the legal services provider failed to adequately protect personal information under California’s...
View ArticleSome potential victims of PaperlessPay breach are first finding out about the...
At the end of April, this site reported a breach at PaperlessPay that put its clients’ employees at risk of tax refund fraud and identity theft. As reported at the time, PaperlessPay had been contacted...
View ArticleTampa teen arrested in hack of Twitter accounts of Obama, Bill Gates and...
Josh Fiallo and Peter Talbot report: A 17-year-old Tampa man was arrested Friday morning after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice discovered he was behind an...
View ArticleWhy a Data Breach at a Genealogy Site Has Privacy Experts Worried
Heather Murphy reports that a data security incident involving GEDmatch has people worried. GEDmatch already had privacy advocates worried because of the data it has shared with law enforcement. Now...
View ArticleCa: Ransomware attack on MSP failed, but attackers exfiltrated some data —...
Canadian managed service provider Pivot Technology Solutions was the victim of a ransomware attack in June. The good news is that the ransomware did not encrypt their systems. The bad news is that the...
View ArticleRobocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data
Brian Krebs reports: A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and...
View ArticleCanon hit by Maze Ransomware attack, 10TB data allegedly stolen
Lawrence Abrams reports: Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. BleepingComputer...
View ArticleCourt Approves Class Action Settlement in RE: YAHOO! Inc.
Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to...
View ArticleDelivery startup, iVoy, experiences data breach, over 127,000 accounts exposed
Mariana Lopez reports: What a week it must have been over at Mexican logistics startup, iVoy. When your users’ data has been potentially compromised, you have a lot to do. Last Tuesday (28), news broke...
View ArticleTwitter says security flaw may have exposed Android users’ direct messages
Salvador Rodriguez reports: Twitter on Wednesday disclosed a new security vulnerability that may have exposed the direct messages of users who access the service using Android devices. Specifically,...
View ArticleSG: The Central Depository and two other organisations fined for data privacy...
Yip Wai Yee reports: The Central Depository (CDP) and two other organisations have been fined a total of $47,000 for breaching data privacy laws. CDP received the biggest fine of $32,000 after it...
View ArticleHacker leaks passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. ZDNet, which obtained a...
View ArticleIntel investigating breach after 20GB of internal documents leak online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US chipmaker Intel is investigating a security breach after earlier today 20 GB of internal documents, with some marked “confidential” or “restricted secret,” were uploaded...
View ArticleSPARTOO: sanction of 250,000 euros and injunction under penalty to comply...
From the CNIL, the French data protection authority: SPARTOO is specialized in the online shoe sales sector. For this activity, it has a website accessible in thirteen countries of the European Union....
View ArticlePepperstone Updates Clients on Data Breach Investigation
Aziz Abdel-Qader reports: Multi-regulated FX broker Pepperstone has just updated its clients about the data security breach that occurred just over a week ago. The company said the security issue had...
View ArticleRansomware Threatens Production of 300 Ventilators Per Day
Felipe Erazo: The FDA-approved Coronavirus ventilator manufacturer Boyce Technologies has been targeted by ransomware launched by the DoppelPaymer gang, who are threatening to leak data from the...
View ArticleTravelex Forced into Administration After Ransomware Attack
After all these years of reporting on breaches, it’s still unusual to read that a company has folded as a result of a data breach, but we live in different times because of the added burden of the...
View ArticleCheck Point researchers uncovered Alexa flaw that exposed personal...
Sharon Ross reports: Researchers at Check Point say they identified an exploit in Amazon’s Alexa voice platform that could have given attackers access to users’ personal information, speech histories,...
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