FR: CNIL Fines a Data Controller and Its Processor 225,000 Euros for Security...
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On January 27, 2021, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced (in French) that it imposed a fine of €150,000 on a data controller, and a fine of €75,000...
View ArticleCa: Premier Tech victim of a cyberattack
Translation of reporting by Samuel Gosselin Belanger: Premier Tech has been managing a real crisis for several days. The company confirmed, Friday morning, that the computer failure that has affected...
View ArticleCA: Serious Prison Time for Hackers Behind Wolf & Associates Breach
Tyler Hayden reports: A pair of habitual offenders behind one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony counts that will send them to...
View ArticleRussian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
MaryClaire Dale of AP reports: Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how...
View ArticleLawmakers press NSA for answers about Juniper hack from 2015
Justin Katz reports: A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the National Security Agency to account for its part in the five-year-old breach of Juniper Networks, following a congressional...
View ArticleFTC Gives Final Approval to Settlement with Zoom over Allegations the Company...
The Federal Trade Commission finalized a settlement with Zoom Video Communications, Inc., over allegations it misled consumers about the level of security it provided for its Zoom meetings and...
View ArticleReport: American Cable and Internet Giant Comcast Exposed Development...
This is a leak that deserves its own post. Website Planet reports: On December 1st, 2020 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a...
View ArticlePersonal Data of 3 Million+ People Exposed In DriveSure Hack
Once again, breaches are discovered when security firms read forums where data are shared or posted for sale. Risk Based Security discusses what they found involving DriveSure: In a lengthy post to...
View ArticleWind River Security Incident Affects SSNs, Passport Numbers
Lindsey O’Donnell reports: Wind River Systems, which develops embedded system software, on Friday warned of a “security incident” that had exposed personnel records. One or more files were downloaded...
View ArticleMarketing Company Agrees to Pay $150 Million for Facilitating Elder Fraud...
January 27 — Epsilon Data Management LLC (Epsilon), one of the largest marketing companies in the world, has entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge for...
View ArticleBR: State-owned energy utility, COPEL, suffers cyberattack
Bruno Soares reports: Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) suffered cyber attacks last night that caused instability in part of its systems. According to the company, the operation and protection...
View ArticleGoodwin says vendor breach may have exposed client data (updated)
Sara Merken reports: Goodwin Procter experienced an indirect security breach involving a third-party vendor whose services the firm uses for large file transfers, according to an internal memo reviewed...
View ArticleCourt Denies Motion for Class Certification in Employee W-2 Data Breach...
Joseph Lazzarotti and d Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: In recent years, there has been an uptick of W-2 phishing scams, and their consequences for an employer extend well beyond leaked data,...
View ArticleUK: Foxtons customer data leaked onto the dark web
Sabina Weston reports: Financial details belonging to customers of UK estate agency Foxtons are widely available on the dark web following a malware attack in October last year that affected parent...
View ArticleSingtel hit by Accellion security breach, customer data may be leaked
Eileen Yu reports: Singtel says it is investigating the impact of a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised customer data, after it ascertained on February 9 that “files were taken”. The attack...
View ArticleMade in India Koo app denies claims of data leak, talks about Chinese connection
Sneha Saha reports: Koo app or the so-called Indian alternative of Twitter is gaining wide popularity in the country as the battle between the Indian government and the microblogging site continues....
View ArticleWeChat Data Leak Leads To Arrest Of Tencent Executive Zhang Feng
Cullen Paradis reports: Zhang Feng, an executive at China’s most valuable public company Tencent Holdings, has been detained by authorities in connection to a data leak and corruption scandal....
View ArticleECU Worldwide chief confirms IT systems are down after ‘cyber incident’
Alex Lennane reports: The chief executive of ECU Worldwide has confirmed the company’s systems have been affected by a “cyber incident”. In a note to customers, Tim Tudor wrote: “Our online systems...
View ArticleYandex suffers data breach after sysadmin sold access to user emails
Ionut Ilascu reports: Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company...
View ArticleTerrorist hackers target Atlassian & Oracle servers
Edward Kost writes: Volatile Cedar, a cybercriminal group affiliated with the Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has resurfaced after disappearing for almost 6 years. The criminal group was suddenly illuminated on...
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