Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises to protect users from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, was exposed by a crew going by the name of FTA,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Plaintiffs Use Privacy Pledge Against Insurer in Data Breach Claim
Armeen Mistry and Matthew Siegel of Cozen O’Connor write about a lawsuit over a data breach in 2014 that I don’t remember ever hearing about before. Whether plaintiffs will be able to show injury is down the road. For now, they survived a motion to dismiss: On February 23, an Illinois federal court denied a motion to dismiss a…
MI: Network security breach reported in West Bloomfield School District, student info exposed
WXYZ reports: West Bloomfield School District officials sent an email to parents saying a security breach to their network exposed certain student information. Read more on WXYZ. There’s no statement yet as to whether this might be an inside breach by a student or anything.
And another company gets successfully scammed for W-2 info
Add Billy Casper Golf to the list of companies that became victims of Business Email Compromise to steal employee W-2 data.
Snooping Merseyside Police sergeant to face misconduct hearing
Luke Traynor reports: A police sergeant was caught snooping on the force computers over an eight-year period and could now be sacked. John Sabatina was convicted of accessing information he was not entitled to view while working for Merseyside Police. The 49-year-old was found guilty of an offence under the Computer Misuse Act and Data Protection Act…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…