Thousands of kids’ names, grades, and their parents’ names and email addresses exposed but they do not respond to notifications via email or their site. I received an autoresponse that they’d get back to me soon. That was on August 5. And then again on August 12 when I tried again. So then I tried…
Category: Business Sector
thedarkoverlord releases files related to 9/11 investigations and litigation; threatens to release more if companies don’t pay up
While most people in the U.K. and U.S. might have been preparing for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the hackers known as thedarkoverlord had their own plans for the evening, and their plans seemed to involve spoiling the plans of a number of corporative executives on both sides of the Atlantic. Earlier in the day, the…
BBC issues formal complaint to Russia over staff data leak
From the yeah-that’s-probably-not-going-to-do-much-good dept., the BBC reports: The BBC has formally complained to Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs, after a list of BBC staff working in Russia, including their personal data, was leaked online. The 44 journalists’ full names and photographs were published on social media by the For Mother Russia group on 25 December….
Nova warns listeners of data breach affecting more than 260,000 Australians
Jennifer Duke reports: Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova Entertainment has warned more than 250,000 listeners that data collected about them between 2009 and 2011 has been publicly disclosed, including residential addresses and birth dates. Nova chief executive Cathy O’Connor said in a statement on Thursday that individuals were being notified about the steps they can take, with…
BevMo notifying thousands of customers after malware compromise of ecommerce site
From their template notification, submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office by Beverages & More (dba “BevMo”): Notice of Data BreachBevMo recently learned of a data incident from the ecommerce service provider that operates our website at www.bevmo.com. This incident may have affected certain customers’ payment card numbers and other information entered on the BevMo…
French watchdog fines Bouygues 250,000 euros for data security breach
Reuters reports that the CNIL has fined the Parisian telecom, but they don’t provide any real details as to what happened. But here’s a translation, via Google, of the CNIL’s press release: In March 2018, the CNIL received a report informing it of the existence of a security incident which led to making freely accessible the personal data of customers of the…