Kate O’Flaherty reports: UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions….
Category: Business Sector
Super Micro trashes Bloomberg chip hack story in recent customer letter
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a letter sent to customers last week, Super Micro Computer (dba Supermicro) has thrashed a Bloomberg article that claimed the company’s motherboards contained a secret chip inserted by the Chinese government for cyber-espionage purposes. “We are confident that a recent article, alleging a malicious hardware chip was implanted during the manufacturing…
Information of 396K Users Exposed in Facepunch Data Breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: As reported by Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned breach notification service, the Facepunch game studio was the victim of a data breach in June 2016 which led to sensitive information of 396,650 users being exposed. […] Furthermore, the Facepunch studio said they knew about the security breach and that all people…
ABA ethics opinion offers guidance on data breaches
Jason Tashea reports: Lawyers have to safeguard client data and notify clients of a data breach, and the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has issued a formal opinion that reaffirms that duty. In Formal Opinion 483, issued Tuesday, the standing committee also provided new guidance to help attorneys take reasonable steps to…
Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A former Equifax engineer who coded parts of the company’s breach notification website for last year’s security incident was sentenced this week to eight months of home confinement and restitution of ill-gotten funds after using insider information about the Equifax breach to make over $75,000 from insider trading. The sentence was passed…
Cybersecurity for Small Business: New FTC Resources
Free Webinar this Thursday: Learn about the FTC’s new cybersecurity for small business campaign, including a new website, fact sheets, quizzes and videos. Hear how to use these tools to help improve cybersecurity for small businesses. Get a glimpse of some of the topics like phishing, ransomware, email authentication, choosing a web host, physical security…