AP reports: German soccer club Stuttgart has been fined 300,000 euros ($357,000) for misusing private data about its members, a regulator said Wednesday. Stuttgart had been accused of passing on data which was potentially useful for marketing to third parties without informing members. Read more on AP.
Author: Dissent
How do you make a data breach even worse? You notify the victims that they are dead.
The headline says it all: Some Treasure Valley residents receiving letters from Saint Alphonsus saying they are dead The situation started routinely enough — an employee’s email account was compromised. In this case, the access was used to send out spam. Somehow, however, in the process of sending breach notifications, there was a mail merge…
PEI-Genesis, Inc. Provides Notice of Data Privacy Event
PHILADELPHIA, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — PEI-Genesis, Inc. (“PEI-Genesis”) recently announced an event that may have impacted the privacy of personal information relating to certain individuals and businesses. While PEI-Genesis is unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of personal information in relation to the event, PEI-Genesis provided potentially affected individuals with notice, information about the event and…
City company booked for data theft after complaint from US
Archana More reports: In what may be a first instance for the city, a local company and its director have been booked for data theft on a complaint filed by a foreign national. The Pune cyber police have registered an FIR against city-based Honey Software Company and its director, Sampurna Atmaramnani for copying and deleting…
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
William Turton reports: A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools. Companies whose footage was exposed include carmaker Tesla Inc. and software provider Cloudflare Inc. In addition, hackers were able to…
Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000
ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…