Paul Kunert reports: Lauri Love, the Brit who beat US attempts to extradite him over accusations of hacking, is suing Blighty’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to get back computing gear seized in 2013 as part of the case against him. More than five years ago, Love was indicted across the pond over allegations he hacked…
Month: February 2019
Report: Over 59,000 GDPR data breach notifications, but only 91 fines
Lucian Constantin reports: Since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May last year, EU organizations have reported almost 60,000 data breaches, but so far fewer than 100 fines have been issued by regulators. According to a new report by multinational law firm DLA Piper, the European Commission’s official statistics…
Accusations fly between a researcher and a vendor over a vulnerability and a bug bounty that was never paid
Wow. Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient has assaulted the security researcher who disclosed the vulnerability at the ICE conference in London. This is the story of a vulnerability disclosure gone bad, one involving the FBI, a vendor with a global customer base of casinos and…
Bayside Covenant Church Provides Notice of Data Breach
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — What Happened? In October of 2018, Bayside became aware of suspicious activity in certain employees’ email accounts. Bayside immediately began an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of this activity. Through the investigation, which included working with third party forensic investigators, we determined that the unauthorized actors accessed…
Employee and locum details in Well data leak up to seven years old
Isabel Finch reports: Some of the details of employees and locums accidentally leaked via email by Well Pharmacy in December may be up to seven years old, the multiple has told C+D. In December, a document – which included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and some payroll numbers of 24,099 employees and locums –…
AU: Confidential documents discovered at former Radius Disability Services Havlin Street Site
Emma D’Agostino reports: MORE than two years have passed since Radius Disability Services went into administration. Yet, documents containing sensitive information about those who worked for and used the service remain at the former Havlin Street Site. Copies of a volunteer’s driver’s licence, bank statement, and birth certificate are among the papers strewn on the floor…