Heather Murphy reports that a data security incident involving GEDmatch has people worried. GEDmatch already had privacy advocates worried because of the data it has shared with law enforcement. Now there was a new reason for concern….. The peculiar matches began early on a Sunday morning. Across the world, genealogists found that they had numerous…
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Tampa teen arrested in hack of Twitter accounts of Obama, Bill Gates and others (Updated with DOJ Press Release)
Josh Fiallo and Peter Talbot report: A 17-year-old Tampa man was arrested Friday morning after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice discovered he was behind an extensive Twitter hack, which temporarily gave him access to the accounts of Bill Gates, Barack Obama and many others. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested…
Some potential victims of PaperlessPay breach are first finding out about the breach now
At the end of April, this site reported a breach at PaperlessPay that put its clients’ employees at risk of tax refund fraud and identity theft. As reported at the time, PaperlessPay had been contacted by Homeland Security on February 19 to alert them that someone was offering access to their clients’ data for sale…
After ransomware attack, legal services company Epiq faces California privacy lawsuit
Sara Merken reports: Lawyers for Epiq Systems Inc have removed a lawsuit to federal court that alleges the legal services provider failed to adequately protect personal information under California’s consumer privacy law. Read more on Reuters.
Judge Dismisses Testing Platform Cyberattack Case Against Pearson
Kirsten Errick reports that a lawsuit against Pearson stemming from a 2018 breach that they were alerted to in 2019 has been tossed for lack of Article III standing: Judge John Z. Lee of the Northern District issued an opinion on Tuesday granting Pearson’s motion to dismiss regarding the data breach of its AIMSweb testing platform, which…
US provides new expanded set of espionage charges against former Twitter employees
Campbell Kwan reports: Fresh off dismissing spying charges against two former Twitter employees and another individual on Tuesday, the US government has unfurled a new superseding indictment that accuses the three individuals of even more offences. The two former Twitter employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, and the third person named Ahmed Almutairi were originally charged with…