Pooja Salhotra reports: Teachers’ social security numbers, student academic records, and families’ home addresses are among the dozens of pieces of information a group of tech savvy high school students stumbled across on Google Drive this year. The documents — many of which contained confidential information — were leaked because of a quirk in the…
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Nl: Not all victims of the GGD Covid data theft were informed
NL Times reports: There are many more people whose data was leaked from the GGD in January than the 1,250 people the GGD reported, according to RTL Nieuws. Not all people whose data was stolen and possibly sold on the internet have been notified about what happened to their private information, the news outlet stated….
Ransomware attackers claim to have stolen data from three NZ firms
Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: South Island businesses may be paying an early price for the United States’ recent successes against ransomware attackers. Evidence is emerging that ransomware criminals may be switching attacks to “soft targets” including New Zealand and Australian firms after President Biden laid down the law with Russia, experts say. A ransomware group known…
Morgan Stanley asks court to throw out data security lawsuit
Ryan W. Neal reports: Morgan Stanley has asked a New York federal court to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging the firm failed to properly wipe sensitive client information from decommissioned computer equipment that has since gone missing. The former clients cannot plausibly identify instances of personal data being accessed or misused, or any…
Ransomware gangs uses PrintNightmare to breach Windows servers
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Ransomware operators have added PrintNightmare exploits to their arsenal and are targeting Windows servers to deploy Magniber ransomware payloads. PrintNightmare is a class of security vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527, and CVE-2021-36958) impacting the Windows Print Spooler service, Windows print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. Read more on BleepingComputer….
Japanese manufacturer Murata apologizes for data breach
Jonathan Greig reports: An official with Japanese electronic components manufacturer Murata has released an apology for the leak of thousands of files in June that contained bank account information for employees and business partners of the company. Norio Nakajima, CEO of Murata Manufacturing, released a statement apologizing for an incident on June 28 when a…