The 500m Facebook leak is not the only 500m leak in the news this past week. There’s also a leak allegedly involving LinkedIn, and now regulators are also looking into that one, too. Danny Mok reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog was seeking clarifications on Wednesday night from career networking site LinkedIn over residents’ possible exposure…
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Utah is the 2nd State to Create a Safe Harbor for Companies Facing Data Breach Litigation
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: In mid-March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act (HB80) (“the Act”), an amendment to Utah’s data breach notification law, creating several affirmative defenses for persons (defined below) facing a cause of action arising out of a breach…
What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak?
Lily Hay Newman reports: Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. The data includes things like profile names, Facebook ID numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. It’s all the kind of information that may already have been leaked or scraped from some…
Dark web hitman identified through crypto-analysis
Europol supported the Italian Postal and Communication Police (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni) in arresting an Italian national suspected of hiring a hitman on the dark web. The hitman, hired through an internet assassination website hosted on the TOR network, was payed about €10 000 worth in Bitcoins to kill the ex-girlfriend of the suspect….
Ransomware attack forces Haverhill Schools to cancel classes
Erin Tiernan reports: At a time when a shift to remote learning has all but made snow days obsolete, Haverhill Public Schools students will be getting one in April after a ransomware attack forced administrators to cancel school on Thursday. The Haverhill Public School District said its IT department noticed early Wednesday morning that something…
La Ville de Vallauris Golfe-Juan impacted by cyberattack
La Ville de Vallauris Golfe-Juan has become a victim of a cyberattack that impacted their mal servers. It was reported on the city’s official Facebook page . Translation: The city of Vallauris Golfe-Juan was the victim, last night, of a cyber attack on the town hall’s mail servers. As a precaution and security measure, all servers…