John Hyde reports: A Hampshire law firm has been reprimanded by the data watchdog after hackers were able to access client details because of insufficient security measures. Levales Solicitors LLP, which specialised in criminal and military law, was found by the Information Commissioner’s Office to have failed to ensure the confidentiality of its processing systems….
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National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits ‘hundreds of millions’ potentially affected
Iain Thomson reports: The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting “hundreds of millions” of people were potentially affected in one of the largest information leaks of the year. In June, the hacking group USDoD put a 277.1 GB file of data online that contained information on about 2.9 billion…
Attorney General Tong Co-Leads $52 Million Multistate Settlement with Marriott for Data Breach of Starwood Guest Reservation Database
The following enforcement action was related to FTC action, also announced today, but is a separate settlement with states. The following press release is from Connecticut’s Attorney General: (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General Tong announced today that a coalition of 50 attorneys general, co-led by Connecticut, has reached a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. as…
FTC Takes Action Against Marriott and Starwood Over Multiple Data Breaches
From the Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission will require Marriott International, Inc. and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC to implement a robust information security program to settle charges that the companies’ failure to implement reasonable data security led to three large data breaches from 2014 to 2020 impacting more than 344…
Ex-Uber CISO Requests a New, ‘Fair’ Trial
Kristina Beek reports: Former Uber CISO Joseph Sullivan, convicted in 2023 of trying to cover up a data breach, is seeking a new trial, citing procedures omissions from his original trial that his lawyers said tainted the verdict. Sullivan was initially convicted on charges related to Uber’s 2016 data breach and was sentenced to three years of…
MoneyGram now says customer data was impacted in security incident
It reportedly was not a ransomware attack, but MoneyGram has now confirmed it did lose sensitive customer data in the recent cyberattack against its business. Sead Fadilpašić reports: In a data breach notification letter sent to affected customers and published on the company’s website, hackers were able to access MoneyGram’s networks for two days, between…