Jason Roberts reports on a case in the Isle of Man: A man’s asked to represent himself as he awaits sentencing for computer hacking and data theft. 47 year old John Henry Griffin of Mona Drive in Douglas was convicted of two offences of unauthorised access of data and two of unlawful obtaining of personal…
Category: Business Sector
Ca: Sunniva reports filing of class action lawsuit regarding privacy breach
CISO Magazine reports: PRNewswire: Sunniva Inc. recently reported that it has been named in a class action lawsuit, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Health Services Ltd. (“NHS”), in connection with a privacy breach of the Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) system used by NHS. Sunniva and NHS will defend this action. NHS identified that…
DragonEx Exchange Suffers Security Breach, Amount of Crypto Stolen Still Unknown
Peter Wind reports: Cryptocurrency exchange DragonEx says they have suffered a security breach on March 24. “On March 24th, DragonEx has encountered attacks from hackers, our users’ crypto assets and platform crypto assets were transferred and stolen. Part of the assets were retrieved back, and we will do our best to retrive back the rest…
Rela, a Chinese lesbian dating app, exposed 5 million user profiles
Zack Whittaker reports: Rela (热拉), a popular dating app for gay and queer women, has exposed millions of user profiles and private data because a server wasn’t protected with a password. Rela disappeared from app stores in May 2017 after it was reportedly shut down by Chinese regulators, though the government never confirmed it took…
Voya Financial Advisors exposes more sensitive adviser information on its website
Less than six months after Voya made headlines by agreeing to pay $1 million to settle SEC charges stemming from a 2016 breach, they have been back in the news after two incidents — one embarrassing and one concerning. Bruce Kelly reports: Weeks after a computer glitch risked exposing the Social Security numbers of its…
Hosting Provider Finally Takes Down Spyware Leak of Thousands of Photos and Phone Calls
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has an update on a recent story: A company that sells cellphone spyware to consumers left 95,000 images and more than 25,000 audio recordings on a server accessible to anyone on the internet for weeks. The sensitive data was so easy to access, that Motherboard couldn’t even name the spyware company in its…