Ellen Nakashima reports: Months after the discovery of a massive breach of U.S. government personnel records, the Obama administration has decided against publicly blaming China for the intrusion in part out of reluctance to reveal the evidence that American investigators have assembled, U.S. officials said. The administration also appears to have refrained from any direct…
Month: July 2015
KY: Metro employees’ personal information at risk after breach at cloud vendor (updated)
No. This is not yet another data breach in the healthcare sector. What it appears to be is a surprisingly late notification in a previously known breach, though. WLKY reports that the personal information of potentially more than 10,000 Louisville metro workers who have Concentra health insurance may have been impacted by the Medical Informatics Engineering…
MA: Some Amherst online billpayers warned about potential data breach
Diane Lederman reports: The town is notifying some residents who pay bills online that some data they provided to the town might have been taken, said Town Finance Director Sandy Pooler. He said the town was notified June 30 about a possible compromise. He said so far “nobody has been adversely affected. We are in the process of figuring…
FTC Takes Action Against LifeLock for Alleged Violations of 2010 Order
Whoa. The Federal Trade Commission today asserted that LifeLock violated a 2010 settlement with the agency and 35 state attorneys general by continuing to make deceptive claims about its identity theft protection services, and by failing to take steps required to protect its users’ data. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of…
Experian sued over Court Ventures-related breach
He beat me to it. 🙂 While I took a break to argue on Twitter about the hacked Jeep story in Wired, Brian Krebs was reporting on a class action lawsuit filed against Experian over the Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch data breach that was covered extensively on both his site and on this site. The lawsuit was…
FBI, Israel Make Securities Fraud Arrests Tied to JPMorgan Hack
Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson report: Law enforcement authorities arrested four people in Israel and Florida and revealed a complex securities fraud scheme tied to the computer hacks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions. Officials said a fifth person remains at large. The morning arrests are the culmination of a months-long investigation…