KMTZ reports some welcome news: A Cole County prosecutor will not file charges against a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the alleged data breach of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website. Prosecutor Locke Thompson said in a release while reviewing the case that it would not be in the best…
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Ca: Military sexual misconduct settlement hit by privacy breach
Lee Berthiaume reports: The company administering the federal government’s $900-million settlement deal with Armed Forces members and veterans who experienced sexual misconduct while in uniform has inadvertently released private information about dozens of claimants. Epiq Class Action Services Canada confirmed the privacy breach on Wednesday, after a veteran said she had received an e-mail last…
Cyber-attack disrupts Slovenia’s top TV station
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A cyber-attack has disrupted the operations of Pop TV, Slovenia’s most popular TV channel, in an incident this week believed to be an extortion attempt. The attack, which took place on Tuesday, impacted Pop TV’s computer network and prevented the company from showing any computer graphics for the evening edition of 24UR,…
HK: Harbour Plaza Hotel customers warned over data leak
RTHK reports: More than a million customers of the Harbour Plaza Hotel group are being advised to be on their guard for possible scams after its booking database came under a cyber attack. Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung said on Friday that she’s probing the data leak involving 1.2 million customers, after receiving a report from…
Wave of MageCart attacks target hundreds of outdated Magento sites
Bill Toulas reports: Analysts have found the source of a mass breach of over 500 e-commerce stores running the Magento 1 platform and involves a single domain loading a credit card skimmer on all of them. According to Sansec, the attack became evident late last month when their crawler discovered 374 infections on the same…
Agency Finds ‘No Error’ as Scammer Steals $15K from Excluded Workers Fund for Luxury Watches
Rommel H. Ojeda reports: On December 3rd, Stephanie, a Chinese immigrant and resident of Nassau County, was skeptical about using the ATM at her 7/11 in Garden City. She had seen warnings in the news about credit card skimming that had taken place in New York City. She inspected the ATM with scrutiny, looking for any…