Jason B. Hirsch reports: A data breach is an unfortunate event, but one that appears to be happening more and more often. On the heels of such data breaches, courts have been inundated with putative class action lawsuits premised upon a risk of future injury, such as identity theft. In the Northern District of Illinois…
Month: June 2015
56 MEEELLION credentials exposed by apps say infosec boffins
Darren Pauli reports: Researchers from the University of Darmstadt say app developers have exposed 56 million credentials by borking login processes using services from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. The research team tested 750,000 Android and iOS applications, examining the way they used the federated identity services to make authentication smooth across different devices. The team…
Japan’s pension system hacked, 1.25 million cases of personal data leaked
William Mallard of Reuters reports another breach due to successful phishing of employees: Japan’s pension system has been hacked and more than a million cases of personal data leaked, authorities said on Monday, in an embarrassment that revived memories of a scandal that helped topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first term in office. Japan…
UK: Phished IT bod opens door to 40,000 finance folks’ personal details
Kat Hall reports: A major data security breach at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment has caused the release of 40,000 members’ details to a fraudster. On Friday (May 29) the professional body for finance and investment folk held an emergency meeting concerning the release of every member’s name, email address and membership level….