Jimmy Koo reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s data security enforcement standard came under fire June 22 from a panel of federal appeals court judges ( LabMD, Inc. v. FTC , 11th Cir., No. 16-16270, oral argument 6/21/17 ). As predicted, the level of harm required for the FTC to act was “front and center” during…
Month: June 2017
UK: Two men arrested as part of international investigation into unauthorized access to the Microsoft network
Detectives from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) have executed two warrants in Lincolnshire and Bracknell and arrested two men this morning (22/6) for conspiracy to gain unauthorised access to the Microsoft network. A 22-year-old man from Lincolnshire was arrested on suspicion of gaining unauthorised access to a computer. A 25-year-old man from…
Google Will Now Remove Private Medical Records From Search Results
Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website…
More data from Cowboys Casino hack released
Brodie Thomas reports: Hackers have released more data from the Cowboys Casino hack of last year, this time with more sensitive information. The second data dump appeared on a torrent site and on the website pastebin.com on Thursday. “Cowboys Casino has still not taken the matter of their customers/employees security seriously, so we are releasing…
Hackers Altered 2016 Voter Rolls and Stole Private Data on U.S. Citizens
Jacob Weindling reports: TIME dropped a bombshell report today that should be getting more attention than it currently is. Here is the tl;dr version of a story that you should read in its entirety. The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful…
$1 million payout for Shelburne hospital privacy breach
Amy Woolvett reports: A class action lawsuit has just set a precedent in Canada against snooping into medical files. “If you a breach (a person’s privacy) you are going to pay for it,” said Raymond Wagner, a lawyer who represented the 681 eligible class members involved in the biggest privacy breach in Canada. Halifax Supreme…