Joseph Curtis reports: A town clerk mistakenly opened a virus loaded email and wiped out every council document in the system since 2015. John Vanderwolfe, of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, said it was ‘the worst thing that’s happened in his 12 years in the role’, and added the blunder ‘is a lesson to us…
Month: February 2017
Two people arrested in U.K. in hacking of D.C. police closed-circuit camera network
Peter Hermann reports: Two people have been arrested in London in the hacking of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras, law enforcement authorities said Thursday. The arrests were made in the south London neighborhood of Streatham and followed a search warrant that was served Jan. 19, the day before the presidential…
Ca: Victim of arson spree questions ICBC’s handling of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach that I had described as one of the worst insider breaches at its time – because it put lives at serious risk and some victims were firebombed or shot at. Mi-Jung Lee and Kendra Mangione recently interviewed one of the victims, who continues to have concerns about the handling…
Rewards “R” Us members notified of forced password reset
Toys “R” Us has been notifying members of their Rewards “R” Us program after they obtained evidence of attempts to gain unauthorized access to some accounts. A spokesperson for the retailer tells DataBreaches.net: The vendor responsible for our loyalty program made us aware of unauthorized attempts to access our Rewards member accounts. This appears to be…
Victims of W-2 phishing scams (2017 list)
— The list of entities reporting that employee W-2 data was acquired by phishing.– Last year, this site compiled 145 W-2 phishing incidents before I somewhat waved a white flag in terms of trying to keep up, but as I started working on this year’s list, I found even more cases from 2016, bringing the 2016…
I3 Brands sues Rackspace following security breaches, crashes
Patrick Danner reports: Rackspace Hosting Inc. touts its “fanatical” client support, but a California e-commerce firm has charged in a new lawsuit that it lost numerous customers after the San Antonio company failed to provide web-hosting services and security as promised. Del Mar, California-based i3 Brands Inc. on Tuesday filed the suit in Bexar County District Court,…