Drew Hansen reports that one of the companies that took on more background checks for the federal Office of Personnel Management after USIS‘s breach has had its own breach: Federal officials are saying the personal information of thousands of employees has been compromised by a computer breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc., according to reports. The…
Month: December 2014
Verizon’s 2014 Data [In]Security Hall of Fame
“this is not intended to be a list of the biggest breaches, and not all of them are supposed to be funny. Think of this as our curated list of the most interesting data security events of 2014 in the VCDB.” Read their roundup here.
Maricopa County colleges computer hack cost tops $26M (so far)
Mary Beth Faller reports: The Maricopa County Community College District continues to deal with fallout from the massive computer-system breach last year, and the latest figures show the cost to taxpayers to deal with it has now topped $26 million. Read more on The Arizona Republic. To date, the MCCCD breach stands as the largest…
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed”
Colleen Taylor reports: Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive Sony Pictures hack exposed a number of Snapchat’s company secrets. On Tuesday afternoon, the hacker group that calls itself the “Guardians of Peace” released the contents of the email inbox of Sony…
Scottish Widows data protection error ‘costs customer £50k’
Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…
50,000 Reasons for Employees to Think Twice Before Taking Their Employer’s Copyright Works and Confidential Information
Lisa Egan and Caroline Judd of K&L Gates LLP write: Federal Court of Australia Decision in Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd v Koudstaal (No 3) [2014] FCA 1129 An ex-employee was recently ordered to pay his former employer AUD50,000 in damages after the Federal Court (Court) held that the employee had infringed copyright and breached his employment agreement and duty…