Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has stolen the personal details of 7.6 million users of browser-based game the “Town of Salem,” BlankMediaGames (BMG) admitted yesterday in a blog post. The hack came to light after a mysterious person sent a copy of the stolen data to DeHashed, a commercial data breach indexing service.DeHashed says it…
Category: Business Sector
Ohio Moves on Insurance Cybersecurity
Josephine Cicchetti of Carlton Fields writes: Ohio has joined South Carolina in becoming the next state to adopt a variation of the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). This legislation makes a number of changes to Ohio’s insurance law, including the addition of a new Chapter 3965, which establishes “standards for data security and…
From thedarkoverlord 9/11 files… a glimpse into what your life is worth. (updated)
The events of 9/11 and theories about those events have occupied a prominent place in our culture. As someone who was there in the aftermath, as a rescuer with the Red Cross, I have enduring memories of what is was like to be just north of Ground Zero in eery silence, and to see the…
So this didn’t work, either…
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…
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….