Charles Gorrivan and Brody Ford report: Snowflake Inc. plans to close its own investigation this week into a hacking campaign that ensnared as many as 165 of its customers. The cloud data and analytics company hasn’t detected any unauthorized access into customer accounts since early last week, Chief Information Security Officer Brad Jones, said in an interview with Bloomberg News….
Category: Breach Incidents
Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Ca: New online breach reporting forms for federal institutions and businesses
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, May 24: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has launched a new online breach reporting form for federal institutions subject to the Privacy Act as well as updated its online breach reporting form for businesses subject to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The new online form for…
FTC Finalizes Order with Blackbaud Related to Allegations the Firm’s Security Failures Led to Data Breach
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order against Blackbaud Inc. settling allegations that its lax security practices allowed a hacker to breach the company’s network and access the personal data of millions of consumers including Social Security and bank account numbers. In a complaint first announced in February 2024, the FTC charged that the South Carolina firm,…
Swiss law enforcement actions appear linked to seizure of BreachForums
There have been a few developments likely related to the seizure of BreachForums. As a preview, recall that Kantonspolizei Zürich was one of the cooperating entities in the takedown and that the seizure notice had two avatars behind bars. One avatar was Baphomet, the administrator of the forum. The other was a default avatar that…
Germany summons Russian envoy over Fancy Bears cyberattack
DW reports: Germany accused Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, on Friday of being behind a 2023 cyberattack that targeted the Social Democrats (SPD). NATO member Germany has been among the Western nations providing military support to Ukraine as it fights a Russian invasion and there have also been recent accusations of increased espionage. In June 2023, the SPD announced that cybercriminals had…