Melanie Ehrenkranz reports: The website for an adult furry game was hacked, with 411,000 unique email addresses and other personal information leaked, according to Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt. The website hosted High Tail Hall, an interactive puzzle game “where you can have erotic encounters with the surrounding characters.” The data breach reportedly happened…
Month: November 2018
USPS Site Exposed Data on 60 Million Users
Brian Krebs reports: U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. KrebsOnSecurity was contacted last week by a researcher who discovered the problem, but who asked…
UK: More than 700 school data breaches in a year
Martin George reports: The number of data breaches reported by schools increased by almost a quarter in just two years, new research shows. Schools in the UK reported 703 data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in 2016-17, compared with 571 in 2014-15. A freedom of information request by accountancy network UHY Hacker Young showed…
MI: Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools recovering from ransomware attack
Brian Bliss reports that Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools (JLAS) in Michigan fell victim to a ransomware attack. The type of ransomware was not reported, nor the amount of the ransom (which the district and their insurer paid). Read more about the incident on Gaylord Herald Times.
FTC Calls For Data Breach Law To ‘Clarify’ Its Authority
Ben Kochman reports: The Federal Trade Commission has called on Congress to “clarify” its authority to regulate data breaches, while responding to the White House’s request for advice on how the administration should handle consumer privacy. In comments posted last week to the U.S. Department of Commerce‘s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the FTC said…
Boxes of private, personal records left exposed in government office for weeks
CBC News reports: Fifty boxes of records containing “sensitive personal information” spent nearly three weeks sitting in a central area of the Grand Falls-Windsor Department of Transportation and Works depot this spring, according to Donovan Molloy, the province’s privacy commissioner. “It’s one of the most serious inadvertent breaches that I’ve seen in my term as…