Danielle Abril reports: The parent company of The Black-eyed Pea and Paymentech are caught up in a 2-year-old legal battle over a data breach that allegedly occurred three years ago. Oddly, the lawsuit, filed with the 68th District Court in Dallas County, says very little about the data breach and neither company seems to have…
Month: September 2015
Calif. Jury Clears UCLA In $1.25M Medical Data Breach Suit
Bonnie Eslinger reports: The University of California, Los Angeles Health System was not responsible for the unauthorized release of a woman’s medical records by a romantic rival, a California jury decided Thursday, rejecting her lawyer’s arguments that the victim was due $1.25 million for emotional harm caused by the breach. Read more on Law360 (subscription…
Ashley Madison hack miscreants may have earned $6,400 from leak
John Leyden reports: Some blackmail attempts against victims of the ongoing Ashley Madison saga resulted in several – albeit modest – pay outs, according to new research. […] An unknown group or individuals (probably unrelated to the self-styled Impact Team who pulled off the hack) sent extortion emails demanding Bitcoin for silence. Toshiro Nishimura, research…
Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton’s Unreleased Private Emails For $500K
RadarOnline reports: Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price tag — a whopping $500,000! Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of…
UK: HM Revenue & Customs breaches job applicants’ privacy in mass email spaff
Kat Hall reports: HMRC is spewing job applicants’ email addresses to potential rivals in mass circular responses it has blamed on “a technical glitch”. A reader got in touch to report their email address had been circulated to all other applicants in three instances. In an email seen by The Reg, the reader’s address was included…
Florida Man Sentenced in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
A Miami Gardens resident was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $64,557 for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme involving personal identification information taken from the State of Florida Department of Children and Families…