Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court has upheld dismissal of most of the plaintiffs who sued the SuperValu Inc. grocery distributor in connection with 2014 data breaches, but reinstated the case of one plaintiff who provided evidence his credit card was misused. Supermarket wholesaler and retailer SuperValu, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, reported two…
Month: August 2017
Bit Paymer Ransomware Hits Scottish Hospitals
I mentioned this ransomware incident the other day, but now Catalin Cimpanu has a really good article with much detail about the ransomware and ransom demands, etc. You can read his report on BleepingComputer. Catalin’s article answers one question I had posed about the NHS Lanarkshire incident – the ransomware is believed to be installed…
Spambot leaks more than 700m email addresses in massive data breach
Alex Hern reports: More than 700m email addresses, as well as a number of passwords, have leaked publicly thanks to a misconfigured spambot, in one of the largest data breaches ever. The number of real humans’ contact details contained in the dump is likely to be lower, however, due to the number of fake, malformed…
Former Allianz Insurance employees get suspended sentences for bribery offences
Terry Gangcuangco reports: Three former Allianz Insurance employees and the two brothers who approached them to leak over 700 pieces of confidential customer data have been sentenced for bribery offences. According to the City of London Police, the three were paid more than £7,000 for the leaked information, which was then passed to claims management…
Victim of TheDarkOverlord notifies HHS that 6,642 patients’ data were hacked
Back in June, this site noted that the majority of victims of TheDarkOverlord had not reported the claimed breaches to HHS and that this site had filed a Freedom of Information request with HHS seeking any records on those breaches. That FOIA request included an incident involving the medical practice of Drs. Feinstein & Roe…
Judge Cracks Down on LinkedIn’s Shameful Abuse of Computer Break-In Law
Jamie Williams and Amul Kalia write: Good news out of a court in San Francisco: a judge just issued an early ruling against LinkedIn’s abuse of the notorious Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to block a competing service from perfectly legal uses of publicly available data on its website. LinkedIn’s behavior is just the…