Simon Jones reports: Personal data of General Optical Council registrants has been mistakenly shared by the regulator with three optical organisations. Home contact addresses of fully qualified registrants were shared earlier this year with three organisations working within the optical sector. The GOC said the details would have been handed over if a home address…
Category: Breach Incidents
Lawsuit: Former employee used computer program to steal trade secrets from Virginia Beach company
Scott Daugherty reports: A Virginia Beach construction company claims a former employee stole trade secrets earlier this year and provided them to a competitor. Unlike most such cases, however, officials with Atlantic Marine Construction Company aren’t arguing the employee stole their proposal sheets and other records before he was fired. Rather, the company claims Christopher…
Fan networks, including MLB, leaked fans’ personal details: researcher
Los Angeles-based Vixlet‘s web site says, “Social networks of tomorrow Today. Bring it On.” So Chris Vickery, the white-hat researcher who uncovered the Systema Software breach, did. And what he found was that fans of Major League Baseball, ATP, and Slipknot had their personal details leaked. “I downloaded over 377,000 user account details, Chris tells DataBreaches.net, including, “names, email addresses,…
OkHello is NOT OK – they’re leaking user data (UPDATE 2)
OkHello provides a free group video chat service. Its app is available on the App Store and on Google Play. If you’ve ever used it, your details may be in others’ hands right now. According to their Privacy Policy, OkHello collects a lot of personal information about users, including geolocation data and information from Facebook…
NM: Fired by Roadrunner, former employee allegedly took revenge by hacking them and re-routing customer service calls
Kirsten Swanson reports: A Rio Rancho man was arrested for hacking his old employers and posing as a technician, even after police say they charged him with a crime. Gordon Logan is accused of hacking into the servers at Roadrunner Wireless Internet Service. He worked at the company for 16 years. Police started to investigate…
Does the FTC Act require FTC to consider breach mitigation in demonstrating “likely” injury?
Jon Neiditz writes: The day after the LabMD decision, I wrote the post linked here because the whole world appeared to be ignoring the importance of that stunning decision. In the last week, even though hundreds of posts, alerts and articles about LabMD have been written, they and all of the media questions I am struggling now to answer still miss some…