In the wake of the massive voter data leak affecting 87 million Mexican voters, INAI has urged the Senate to pass secondary legislation that would strengthen data protection by expanding the law to apply to political parties and agencies, and not just private businesses. I would think the leak would be enough to garner legislative support…
Month: April 2016
SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases, issues software security update
Jim Finkle reports: SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers on Monday that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the…
Presidential campaign apps expose personal data, report says
First it was their web sites failing to protect privacy, and now it’s their apps. Cory Bennett reports: Over half of presidential campaign-related smartphone apps on Android devices are exposing users’ sensitive data, according to new research. Presidential campaigns — and the groups that support them — are increasingly using smartphone apps to try to…
Lawsuit claims workers comp insurers hacked into injured workers’ files
Donna Mahoney reports: A California worker claims in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally hacked over 32,000 confidential workers comp files. A lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, San…
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed
Sarah Perez reports: A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify…
Grand Sierra Resort guest payment cards breached in 2014 and again in 2015
The Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, has become the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers’ credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised: for a one-month period in 2014 and again…