Mike Rogoway reports: Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week. One of Ruby’s online vendors was hit by a cyberattack that left the company unable to accept any incoming calls or online messages, CEO Kate…
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Over 1,200 IDF soldiers examined after WSJ leak on naval ops against Iran
Tzvi Joffre reports: The communications of about 1,200 IDF soldiers were examined and 10 officials were questioned after information about Israeli strikes on Iranian ships was leaked to The Wall Street Journal last year. […] The IDF told the State Attorney that over 1,200 soldiers were exposed to the secrets about the operations, while only about 450…
France sees boom in personal data breaches in 2021
By Mathieu Pollet, translated by Daniel Eck: France has hit an all-time record in notifications of personal data breaches, up 79% from 2020, the latest report of the country’s data protection supervisor CNIL has found. EURACTIV France reports. Over the past year, CNIL received 5,037 notifications of personal data breaches – about 14 notifications per…
Boca Raton Attorney Allegedly Leaked Clients’ Confidential Files
Joshua Ceballos reports: All Priscilla Haring wanted from her divorce attorney, Richard Glenn Ozelie, was a divorce. But, according to her complaint filed in Broward civil court in March, what she got instead was scores of confidential files belonging to “a minimum of 96 individuals” — a potentially huge breach of ethics by her erstwhile attorney. Read more…
Ontario Cannabis Store confirms data leak, Ontario Provincial Police opens investigation
David Brown reports: OCS confirms that confidential store sales data from the provincial cannabis distributor was leaked to the public. Following reports online from cannabis retailers in Ontario in April, the OCS [Ontario Cannabis Store] sent out a letter to retailers and licensed producers confirming that the data leak occurred without the OCS’ permission. Although…
Personal details of 21M SuperVPN, GeckoVPN users leaked on Telegram
Waqas reports on a leak spotted by VPNMentor: In total, the database contains 10GB worth of data from companies like SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN which is now available for free download on several different Telegram groups. On May 7th, 2022, a database containing the personal details and login credentials of 21 million users was leaked…