Tony Tootell and Patrick J. McMahon of Foley Lardner write: California companies housing their drivers’ personal information may feel less exposed to liability in light of the Northern District of California’s holding in Antman v. Uber Technologies, Inc. in May.[1] The trial court in Antman found that Uber was not liable to its drivers after hackers illicitly accessed their personal…
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Owners of 3 small Indian IT firms arrested for leaking data
Express News Service reports: Proprietors of three small-scale IT companies were arrested on Saturday in connection with the data leak of students who appeared for the class 10 and 12 state board exams this year.The serious breach of data came to light recently as data companies were openly selling the district-wise details of nearly 8…
Telstra customer stumbles across contact details of 66,000 fellow customers
Elise Baker reports: A 63-year-old layman, who admits he isn’t a “tech-savvy person”, has somehow been able to access a Telstra database containing the contact details of their customers. Robert Irvine has told 9NEWS he had an issue with his email and thought he might be able to fix it by logging on to his…
Long Beach Port terminal hit by ransomware attack
Mark Edward Nero reports: The China Ocean Shipping Co. Terminal at the Port of Long Beach was hit by a cyberattack on Tuesday, July 24. A spokesman for the Shanghai-based company, which acknowledged the ransomware attack Tuesday, said that the company’s operations outside the United States were not affected. As of Tuesday afternoon, COSCO’s website…
Securities Investors Association (Singapore) notifies 70,000 members of newly discovered 2013 breach
Benjamin Cher reports: The Securities Investors Association (Singapore) has discovered a data breach that happened five years ago. In an email to its members, SIAS said that some 70,000 members have had their personal particulars illegally accessed and copied in 2013. Data stolen included names, NRIC numbers and telephone numbers of the members. Read more…
If you shopped at these 15 stores in the last year, your data might have been stolen
Dennis Green and Mary Hanbury report: At least 15 separate security breaches occurred at retailers from January 2017 until now. Many of them were caused by flaws in payment systems, either online or in stores. Data breaches are on the rise for both retailers and other businesses. A recent report published by cybersecurity firm Shape…