BBC reports an update to the Alex Bessell case: A computer hacker has admitted a series of cyber crimes, including attacks on Google, Skype and other companies. Alex Bessell from Liverpool, admitted nine offences, including receiving £50,000 from proceeds of a website he set up to sell malware and botnets. The 21-year-old’s crimes also included…
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PayPal Admits Acquired Company Suffered Major Breach
Phil Muncaster reports: PayPal has been left red-faced after it was forced to admit a massive data breach at recently acquired TIO Networks affecting 1.6 million customers. The payments giant said in a statement that TIO’s operations had been suspended since November 10, while it investigated “security vulnerabilities” in the firm’s platform. Read more on…
Personal information of up to 9,000 customers affected by possible security breach, CU says
Alissa Zhu reports: City Utilities has identified up to 9,000 customers who used payment kiosks or a certain mobile app to pay their utilities bills. Those customers’ personal information may be affected by a possible security breach, according to a news release. Information potentially at risk for those individuals include names, addresses, phone numbers, utility billing accounts, bank…
EU Data Protection Authorities Establish Task Force to Collaborate on Uber Data Breach
Hunton & Williams writes: On November 29, 2017, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party (”Working Party”) announced the establishment of a task force to coordinate the plethora of national investigations throughout the EU into Uber’s 2016 data breach that affected approximately 57 million users worldwide. The task force is being led by the data protection…
Morrisons’ data leak could see thousands of workers given payout
Jan Colley, Simon Smith, and Gareth Bartlett report: Staff at Morrisons could be about to receive a massive payout after their personal details were posted on the internet. A huge data leak by the supermarket giant has allowed a claim by thousands of workers. They are seeking compensation for the upset and distress caused and…
Florida-based credit firm left 111GB of sensitive customer data exposed on AWS server
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: A Florida-based credit repair company left 111 gigabytes of extremely sensitive customer information and internal company data publicly accessible on the internet possibly for up to two years. The National Credit Federation publicly exposed 47,000 files that included customer names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, credit reports,…