Tyler Hayden reports: A pair of habitual offenders behind one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony counts that will send them to prison for a combined 33 years. San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen, 37, and Nicole Milan, 31, admitted to hacking a computer network…
Category: Business Sector
Ca: Premier Tech victim of a cyberattack
Translation of reporting by Samuel Gosselin Belanger: Premier Tech has been managing a real crisis for several days. The company confirmed, Friday morning, that the computer failure that has affected the company since Tuesday is in fact a cybersecurity incident. […] For the moment, the Rivière-du-Loup company refuses to say if a ransom has been…
FR: CNIL Fines a Data Controller and Its Processor 225,000 Euros for Security Violation in Connection with Credential Stuffing
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On January 27, 2021, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced (in French) that it imposed a fine of €150,000 on a data controller, and a fine of €75,000 on its data processor, for failure to implement adequate security measures to protect customers’ personal data against credential stuffing attacks on the website…
Take responsibility when you are hacked, hacker advises Indian companies
So now ShinyHunters is telling Indian companies that they must take full responsibility if their data is hacked?
USCellular hit by a data breach after hackers access CRM software
Lawrence Abrams reports: Mobile network operator USCellular suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to its CRM and viewed customers’ accounts. In a data breach notification filed with the Vermont attorney general’s office, USCellular states that retail store’s employees were scammed into downloading software onto a computer. This software allowed an attacker to access…
Suspected Russian Hackers Gained Edge Through Tech Firm Attacks
Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report: Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, including cybersecurity firms entrusted to find malicious activity in their clients’ networks. Four cybersecurity companies announced this week that they had been targeted as…