Reuters reports: Thailand’s iTruemart, a unit of mobile phone operator True Corp Plc, said on Saturday it has fixed a data leak that led to information on some of its customers, including their ID and passport data, becoming public. The files of customers buying “TrueMove H” mobile packages had been ‘hacked’, it said in a…
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Seventh Circuit Reinstates Barnes & Noble Data Breach Class Action
Edward J. McAndrew of Ballard Spahr reports: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reinstated a data breach class action filed against Barnes & Noble (B&N). The litigation, styled as Dieffenbach v. Barnes & Noble, Inc., now heads back to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, which previously dismissed the…
College Consultants’ Client Information Was Exposed on Web Servers
Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz reports: User names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information belonging to independent college consultants who used CollegePlannerPro from 2015 to 2017 were freely available to anyone on web servers used by the software company. An anonymous tip sent to The Chronicle on Thursday pointed out a hyperlink that anyone could use to…
Uber Agrees to Expanded Settlement with FTC Related to Privacy, Security Claims
Uber Technologies, Inc. has agreed to expand the proposed settlement it reached with the Federal Trade Commission last year over charges that the ride-sharing company deceived consumers about its privacy and data security practices. After the announcement of last year’s proposed settlement, the Commission learned that Uber had failed to disclose a significant breach of…
Sodexo Filmology data breach – Users need cancel their credit cards
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology and it is urging them to cancel their credit cards. The service rewards UK employee via discounted cinema tickets, the website was taken down in response…
Singapore teen who hacked NFL Twitter account gets 24 months’ probation
Suhaile Md reports: A Singaporean student who hacked into the official US National Football League’s (NFL) Twitter account was sentenced to 24 months probation at the State Courts on Thursday (5 April). Devesh Logendran, 18, pleaded guilty to 11 charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. Read more on Yahoo! News Singapore.