Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced today that New Jersey, along with 31 other states and the District of Columbia, has entered into a settlement with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company that resolves allegations linked to a data breach that compromised the personal identifying information of more than a million consumers. The multi-state settlement, which also…
Category: Business Sector
Top Next-Gen Security Firm Leaking Terabytes of Customer Data
Update2: Brian Krebs has a great post criticizing those who reported on DirectDefense’s claims without waiting for a response from Cb. Sadly, this site is also guilty of that by just citing and linking to others’ reporting without doing any verification. Original Post: From the this-can’t-be-good dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sensitive corporate data from customers…
HBO Hackers Dump Game of Throne Scripts, Another Episode, and Confidential Corporate Files
“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week by announcing their hack of HBO, released more files and more evidence of how thoroughly they may have ransacked some…
Man Who Hacked his Former Employer Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence
Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and copying of emails in order to give his new company a competitive edge, according to the US Department of Justice. Jason Needham, 45,…
Car lease companies’ poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers
DutchNews.nl reports: Cyber security at some 50 car lease companies operating in the Netherlands was so bad that private details about at least 180,000 company car drivers was easily accessed by an IT firm, the AD said on Monday. The leak was discovered by Sliedrecht-based company ESET which was looking for a new company car…
FireEye: “31337 Hackers” did not breach network or analyst’s computers or devices
On July 31, a group calling themselves ” 31337 Hackers” leaked data and files purportedly hacked from an analyst working for Mandiant, the breach investigation division of FireEye. Why they had targeted the one analyst was not revealed, but it was presented as just the opening salvo in what was described as a campaign, #LeakTheAnalyst. Today, FireEye…