A financial penalty of $15,000 was imposed on Orchard Turn Developments for failing to make reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data of its members that was stored on its server. Orchard Turn Developments was also issued directions to patch all system vulnerabilities already identified, conduct a penetration test and rectify new weaknesses identified, as…
Category: Business Sector
How A Verizon Partner Exposed 14 Million Customer Accounts
Dan O’Sullivan reports: UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now report that a misconfigured cloud-based file repository exposed the names, addresses, account details, and account personal identification numbers (PINs) of as many as 14 million US customers of telecommunications carrier Verizon, per analysis of the average number of accounts exposed per day in the sample that…
Hackers nab credit card data from up to 1,000 California Realtors
Jeff Collins reports: Just over 1,000 California Association of Realtors members may have been affected by a breach of the online store they use to buy everything from blank home sales contracts and disclosure forms to books, software, magnets, lapel pins and coffee mugs. The malware attack, which occurred from March 13 through May 15, prompted CAR…
Data of over 120 million Jio customers leaked, claim reports
This has the makings of another AA situation where despite evidence, an entity initially claims that data were not compromised, only to have to walk back their claims later on. The New Indian Express reported: In what seemed to be the biggest data breach in India, a nondescript website called magicapk reportedly had access to data of…
Extradition hearing set for Karim Baratov, Canadian accused of aiding Yahoo hackers
Andrew Blake has the update on a case we’ve been watching: An extradition hearing has been set in the case of Karim Baratov, a Canadian man wanted by U.S. prosecutors in relation to an international cybercrime ring implicated in hacking over a half-billion Yahoo accounts. Attorneys for Mr. Baratov and the Justice Department will argue…
Kansas ID theft suspects had 429 job applications
Today’s reminder about the need to secure and securely destroy PAPER records, too, comes to us from Kansas: A search warrant shows authorities are investigating two suspected identity thieves found with a box filled with hundreds of Dollar Tree job applications apparently obtained by going through trash containers in Wichita. The warrant was filed recently…