Armeen Mistry and Matthew Siegel of Cozen O’Connor write about a lawsuit over a data breach in 2014 that I don’t remember ever hearing about before. Whether plaintiffs will be able to show injury is down the road. For now, they survived a motion to dismiss: On February 23, an Illinois federal court denied a motion to dismiss a…
Month: March 2016
MI: Network security breach reported in West Bloomfield School District, student info exposed
WXYZ reports: West Bloomfield School District officials sent an email to parents saying a security breach to their network exposed certain student information. Read more on WXYZ. There’s no statement yet as to whether this might be an inside breach by a student or anything.
Ca: Patients notified after insider breach at Eastern Health
Tara Bradbury reports: With her daughter undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer, it’s understandable that Holly Denine’s heart jumps up in her throat every time her phone rings and a 777 number appears. Thursday morning, it happened — but it wasn’t bad news about the health of six-year-old Nevaeh. Eastern Health managers were calling to let…
Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting
Steve Ragan helps out Daesh by creating a data breach notification letter for them to use in the wake of an insider breach that resulted in info on 22,000 Jihadis being in the hands of Sky News (and now governments): Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting Enjoy.
And another company gets successfully scammed for W-2 info
Add Billy Casper Golf to the list of companies that became victims of Business Email Compromise to steal employee W-2 data.
Billion dollar bank heist foiled by hacker’s typo
The Telegraph reports: A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion (£700 million) heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $80 million, one of the largest known bank thefts in…