Simon Sharwood reports: Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site run by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber, appears to have contacted users to warn them of a nasty security breach. Reg reader “KB” has sent us an email sent to Scrum.org members and customers that says “On May 26, 2016, we noticed an issue with the Scrum.org…
Month: June 2016
Ca: OSC Announces Sentences and Guilty Pleas in Hospital Privacy Breach Case
The OSC today announced that Nellie Acar, Esther Cruz, Polina (Poly) Edry and Subramanian Sulur entered guilty pleas to charges laid following an investigation by the OSC’s Joint Serious Offences Team (JSOT) related to the misuse of confidential patient information from the Rouge Valley Health System and the Scarborough Hospital. Acar pleaded guilty to one count of secret commissions…
TeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained
Shaun Nichols reports: TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied after the software company’s systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked. In the past 24 hours, we’ve seen a spike in complaints from people who say their PCs and servers were taken over via the widely used remote-control…
Extortion E-mail Schemes Tied to Recent High-Profile Data Breaches
A public service announcement from the FBI (Alert Number I-060116-PSA): The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from individuals who have received extortion attempts via e-mail related to recent high-profile data thefts. The recipients are told that personal information, such as their name, phone number, address, credit card information, and other personal details,…
Heading out to the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference
My favorite conference of the year is PLSC. I always feel honored that this snarky non-lawyer, non-scholarly PITA is invited. I’ll be on the road much of today, and if you can believe it, I will be staying with a friend who has… wait for it… dial-up. If you submit comments on posts, they may sit in the moderation…
FBI raid on dental IT technician is already chilling disclosures
Over on the Daily Dot this morning, I have a follow-up to my earlier report on an FBI raid on Justin Shafer. There was a lot of anger towards the FBI and Patterson Dental in response to the raid, and I pulled together some of my favorite comments or responses from around the Internet. But more importantly,…