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Category: Blog
FCC Enforcement Bureau Settles With Liberty Latin America for Data Breach Notification Violations
Full Title: In the Matter of Liberty Latin America Limited, Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc., Liberty Mobile USVI Inc. Document Type: Consent Decree Order Bureau(s): Enforcement Description FCC EB settles with Liberty for $100K civil penalty resolving an investigation into whether Liberty failed to report a data breach in a timely manner as required and failed…
Blackbaud settles California charges over 2020 data breach for $6.75 million
In October 2023, Blackbaud settled charges by 49 state attorneys general and D.C. stemming from a 2020 data breach. They settled for nearly $50 million. Now they have settled with California for $6.75 million. The state issued the following press release: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a settlement with Blackbaud, a South Carolina-based…
More arrests stemming from Desjardins data breach
The Sûreté du Québec announced more arrests today stemming from the data breach disclosed in 2019 affecting Mouvement Desjardins. Some of this site’s previous coverage on that breach is linked from here. Members of the Economic Crimes Investigation Department of the Sûreté du Québec made arrests this morning as part of the Portier investigation, concerning…
Christie’s discloses cyberattack in May
Most of us have probably never placed a bid at the high-end Christie’s auction house. But 45,798 people are being notified of an attack on Christie’s system between May 8 and May 9 of this year. During the attack, some files were copied. Because Christie’s deals in fine art and antique auctions as well as…
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…