ANP reports that ANWB (the Royal Dutch Touring Club) has sent an email to former and current members to warn them that their data may have been compromised in cyber attack. The attack was not on ANWB’s own system, it seems, but a collection agency that they use for delinquent accounts — Trust Krediet Beheer…
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Robservations: Two-year data breach hits employees’ email at WTTW, WFMT
Robert Feder reports: Window to the World Communications, parent company of WTTW-Channel 11 and WFMT 98.7-FM, alerted employees this week to the discovery of a data breach in its computer system believed to have occurred over nearly a two-year period. Investigations by a law firm and forensic accounting firm determined that emails and personal information of approximately 40 staffers were…
Data Analytics Company Settles with FTC Over Alleged Data Security Violations
Sheila A. Millar and Tracy P. Marshall of Keller & Heckman write: Third-party service providers are vital to many companies and they handle a wide range of business activities essential for companies to deliver their own offerings. But a company is not adequately protecting consumers if it fails to perform proper due diligence on service…
Don’t dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches
I am posting this because, sadly, it seems that some people DO need to read this, although most of them probably are not readers of my site. Ben Dickson cites reactions to the recent disclosure of the NetGalley breach to highlight errors users may make in discussing the breach on social media: And in their…
Joint Statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA)
January 5 2021 — On behalf of President Trump, the National Security Council staff has stood up a task force construct known as the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), composed of the FBI, CISA, and ODNI with support from NSA, to coordinate the investigation and remediation of this significant cyber incident involving federal government networks….
Ho Mobile offers to replace 2.5m SIM cards after hackers snag user details
Oisin Sweeney reports a follow-up to a previously noted Ho Mobile breach: On Monday (January 4th) the Vodafone owned company confirmed a massive data breach and is now taking the unprecedented step of offering to replace the SIM cards of all 2.5 million affected customers. Read more on EuroWeekly.