Eugene Kim reports: Slack, the business communication app that is now reported to be worth over $2 billion, has experienced hacker attacks on its central user database, resulting in a possible breach of user data, Slack wrote in a blog post Friday. “We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing…
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Guilty plea entered in fraud, ID theft case
The Stockton Record reports: A Roseville woman has been convicted in San Joaquin County after she collected thousands of dollars from an annuity scheme using the identities of employees from Stockton Unified School District and other area school districts. Magaly Morales, 52, pleaded to one count of felony insurance fraud with a white collar enhancement…
AU: Court recording biz with clients EVERYWHERE has forums breached
Darren Pauli reports: Australian court transcription company “For The Record” – which bills itself as “The No.1 digital evidence recording platform in the world” and says its products are “used in courtrooms throughout North America, Europe and Asia” – has had its forum hacked. The firm is used by the likes of the Victorian and…
Optus rapped for three privacy breaches
As you read the following, keep in mind that Australia has just required ISPs to retain non-content data for two years. Josh Taylor reports: Optus has committed to undertake an independent review of its information security systems after Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim investigated three separate security incidents. The first incident related to the company’s…
MI: Potential data breach at unnamed merchant
Upper Michigan’s Source reports: Some Peninsula Federal Credit Union members had their debit cards cancelled as a precaution today. According to bank officials, the suspected data breach was at a local merchant. Read more on uppermichiganssource.com. Okay, not much there, I grant you, but it was only because I looked at that story that I…
Allegations of Indirect Access Held Insufficient To State Claim Under CFAA – Court
David J. Clark of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., writes: On March 20, 2015, a California federal court rejected an expansive reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) urged by two plaintiff corporations that sought to hold a competitor and two of its directors liable under the CFAA, under an agency theory, for the actions…