There’s a follow-up on a case involving a vengeful former employee that I’ve previously noted. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Brian P. Johnson, 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will have to spend the next 34 months in federal prison and pay $1,134,828 in damages after hacking his former employer shortly after being fired. According to court documents,…
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“Mr. Smith:” HBO offered $250,000 “bug bounty” to hackers
The HBO hackers apparently want us all to know that they weren’t bluffing when they said they would not play games or go along with delaying tactics. In a letter to HBO, described previously on this site, the hackers had written, “As we witnessed in other cases, Fucking FBI or other police enforcements, teach you…
UK: TalkTalk hit with yet another monetary penalty over earlier data protection failure
TalkTalk, who was issued a £400,000 fine in October for its failure to prevent a 2015 hack, has now been hit with a £100,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office for failure to to look after its customers’ data and leaving it at risk of falling into the hands of scammers and fraudsters: An ICO investigation…
NJ Attorney General Porrino Announces Multi-State Settlement With Nationwide Insurance over Consumer Data Breach
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…
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…