FX News Group reports: Taunton-based Luke Coleman, aged 30, has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining and the subsequent disclosure of personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act, following a prosecution by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Coleman, who was employed by Virgin Media O2, sold confidential customer data to family friend Nicholas…
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The 4TB time bomb: when EY’s cloud went public (and what it taught us)
Today’s episode of “No need to hack when it’s leaking” is brought to us by Neo Security. In the course of their research and scanning, they came across a 4 TB SQL backup. As Neo Security explains: An SQL Server BAK file is a complete database backup. It contains everything: the schema, all the data,…
Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information
Tara Deschamps reports: Toys “R” Us Canada has notified customers of a data breach it says may have compromised their personal information. In an email sent to shoppers Thursday morning, the toy store said it learned on July 30 that someone had posted information on the “unindexed Internet” they claimed to have stolen from the…
Gatineau gymnastics centre warns members of possible data breach
CBC reports: Thousands of members of a gymnastics centre in Gatineau, Que., may have had their personal and financial data stolen after a possible computer breach. Some 21,000 members of Unigym Gatineau learned about the Oct. 6 breach in an email from the club on Wednesday. The compromised data includes names, contact information, social insurance…
Hotel and Casino near Las Vegas Strip suffers data breach, documents say
Linsey Lewis reports: OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas was hit by a cyberattack sometime in early January, allegedly exposing the personal information of more than 4,700 people, according to documents provided by authorities in Maine. OYO Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip on Tropical Avenue near Koval Lane and owned…
Attorney General James Announces Settlement with Wojeski & Company Accounting Firm
Wojeski & Company suffered a ransomware attack, and then an insider breach when an employee of a firm hired to investigate the breach inappropriately accessed data. Employees were also transmitting data to external accounts without authorization. To make things even worse, the accounting firm took more than a year to notify those affected. From a…