Katie Johnston of the Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued Duxbury lawyer and real estate broker Michael Haney after approximately 120 boxes with his clients’ real estate closing files were found “waterlogged and exposed to the elements” on a former client’s property in 2014. More than 1,200 Massachusetts residents are thought…
Month: January 2016
Companies buy stolen data from criminals to protect users
Sean Sposito reports on companies buying, or arranging to buy through an intermediary, stolen data on the dark web. They do it to verify whether the data are real or whether they’ve had a leak, and they generally don’t spend much – only buying a small sample of data, but the practice is controversial. Read…
Ca: Hard drive containing military and personal information found
Natasha Pace reports that a hard drive found nearly one year ago at a recycling depot is believed to belong to the Canadian military. The drive sat in a man’s closet until he went to use it recently and discovered what was on it. “I ran a recovery software and I basically saw some files that, basically,…
MN: Court says cyberattacks struck judicial branch website Issues
AP reports that the Minnesota Judicial Branch website was unavailable to the public last month due to DDoS attacks. No data were breached. Read more on MPR.
OR: Companies and state agencies must notify state of breaches affecting more than 250 Oregonians
KTVZ reminds everyone that Oregon’s new law has gone into effect whereby businesses and state agencies must notify the Oregon Attorney General of breaches affecting the personal information of at least 250 Oregonians. The new law defines protected data to include any medical, health insurance or biometric information as well as Social Security numbers, government ID numbers or…
FTC e-mail gaffe reveals 600 attendees’ email addresses before privacy conference
Laura Hautala reports: Maybe I’m naive to expect a certain savviness about privacy from the FTC, especially just before it convenes a group of experts in privacy and cybersecurity at a conference in Washington, DC, next week. I certainly didn’t expect the agency to accidentally send out a list of every attendee’s email address. But,…