Brian Boucher reports: Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has filed suit against Christie’s accusing the auction giant of harboring a large trove of sales data stolen by the operators of its Collectrium database. The suit alleges that Collectrium staffers used various accounts, one of them registered under the name of the silver-screen spy Jason Bourne, to pilfer data…
Category: Business Sector
CoStar Sues Longtime Competitor Xceligent, Alleging Data Theft
Peter Grant reports: CoStar Group Inc., one of the world’s largest commercial real-estate data companies, has taken direct aim at longtime competitor Xceligent with a lawsuit alleging Xceligent has been involved in “brazen and widespread theft” of its data and photos, according to legal papers filed Monday night. Read more on WSJ.
Yahoo to Defend Massive Data Breach on Home Court
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Yahoo! Inc. will be defending multidistrict consumer data breach claims in its home territory in the federal trial court based in Silicon Valley ( In re Yahoo Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig. , J.P.M.L., No. No, 2752, transfer order 12/7/16 ). The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned Judge Lucy Koh of…
PwC sends ‘cease and desist’ letters to researchers who found critical flaw
Zack Whittaker reports: A security research firm has released details of a “critical” flaw in a security tool, despite being threatened with legal threats. Munich-based ESNC published a security advisory last week detailing how a remotely exploitable bug in a security tool, developed by auditing and tax giant PwC, could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access…
CA: University student indicted for DDoS attacks on Bay area online chat service (updated)
SAN FRANCISCO – Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, a graduate student in computer science, has been indicted for transmitting a program, information, code, or command causing damage to a protected computer announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The indictment, filed December 1, 2016,…
Netgear working to fix flaw that left thousands of devices open to attack
Steve Ragan reports: A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Nighthawk line of Netgear routers was disclosed on Friday. The flaw leaves customers exposed to having their connections hijacked, as someone exploiting the vulnerability can take complete control of the device. Despite having months to address the problem, Netgear has yet to publish a fix. Read…