Alan Hope reports: Telecommunications company Orange has admitted that a “data leak” exposed the personal information of some 15,000 customers in Belgium to possible hackers. The leak took place two weeks ago, but was only this week revealed to the clients affected. Orange did not reveal exactly what details had been leaked, but the possibilities…
Category: Business Sector
Data breach litigation against optometry board revived
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated putative class action data breach litigation against the National Board of Examiners in Optometry Inc. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said in Tuesday’s ruling in Rhonda L. Hutton et al. v. National Board of Examiners…
Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600
Brian Krebs reports: In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people, many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West. The 49-year-old librarian from a tiny town in Vermont took…
Cn: Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked
Global Times reports: Hackers attacked a popular Chinese video-sharing site, breaching millions of private data including encrypted passwords, according to an emergency notice from the site on Wednesday. AcFun, the site for the comics and games community, urged its users on Weibo to immediately change their passwords since “nearly 10 million users’ data have been…
Dixons Says Almost 6 Million Cards Targeted in Cyberattack
Eric Pfanner and Sam Chambers report: A cyberattack at Dixons Carphone Plc affected almost 6 million payment cards as hackers sought access to customers’ personal data in another challenge for new Chief Executive Officer Alex Baldock. The retailer, already struggling with a slowing mobile phone market in the U.K. and the rise of Amazon.com Inc.,…
Yahoo! UK fined £250,000 by ICO after systemic failures put customer data at risk
From the ICO’s office: Yahoo! UK Services Limited has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) following a cyber-attack in November 2014. The incident was publicly disclosed in September 2016, almost two years after it had taken place. Because of when the breach happened, the ICO’s investigation was carried out under the Data…