Canan Sevgili of Reuters reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com’s gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. KVKK launched an investigation after a 125 GB data leak. It found that Twitch had failed to take adequate security measures beforehand, addressing…
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Attorney General James Secures $250,000 from Movie Theater Operator for Failing to Protect Employees’ Personal Information
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $250,000 from a global movie theater operator, National Amusements, Inc. (National Amusements), that operates movie theaters in the Bronx and on Long Island for failing to protect their former and current employees and contractors’ personal information. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General…
Leaked info of 122 million linked to B2B data aggregator breach
Bill Toulas reports: The business contact information for 122 million people circulating since February 2024 is now confirmed to have been stolen from a B2B demand generation platform. The data comes from DemandScience (formerly Pure Incubation), a B2B demand generation company that aggregates data. […] In the case of DemandScience, the firm collected business data from…
Professional Probation Services leak exposed almost half a million probationers’ personal info
If you say you always do right, then you should do right, right? Ouch. Over on infosec.exchange, @Jayeltee recently wrote: Professional Probation Services ( www.ppsfamily.com ) exposes almost 500,000 US probationers private data publicly, SSNs included, and when I ask them for their intentions regarding disclosure, they go into hiding mode, removing their management and…
Canada Arrests Man Suspected of Hacks of Snowflake Customers
Margi Murphy and Brian Platt report: Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Following a request from the US, Alexander “Connor” Moucka was taken into custody on a provisional arrest warrant on…
Today’s reminder of the insider threat: LG Electronics USA
From a notification sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by external counsel for LG Electronics U.S.A. (LGEUS): Earlier this month, in the course of investigating certain matters relating to a recent resignation by a (now former) Payroll Manager at LGEUS, the Company determined that the former employee — during the course of their…