Shamoil T. Shipchandler of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has a great commentary about how our country is doing on cybersecurity and privacy. It begins: When it comes right down to it, we are about as bad at cybersecurity as Twitter’s CFO is at Twitter or North Korea is at coming up with new political slogans to commemorate its 70th anniversary. As…
Category: Breach Incidents
Notorious 8chan “subboard” has history wiped after federal judge’s doxing [Updated]
Sam Machovech reports: On Monday, imageboard site 8chan’s “baphomet” subboard, an Internet destination known for hosting aggressive “doxing” posts, received a major history wipe the day after one of its users posted the personal information of a federal judge in the Silk Road case. Archived posts sent to Ars Technica contained the full mailing address, phone number, and…
UK: Cumbria police worker to face trial on data charges
News & Star reports: A civilian police worker will face trial after denying two data protection offences. [identity information redacted by DataBreaches.net– see update], faces one charge of knowingly or recklessly obtaining information contained in personal data without the permission of the data controller, and one charge of recklessly or knowingly disclosing that information, in…
Jeb Bush probably won’t be running on a privacy platform after doxxing everyone
Maybe one of the qualifications for President in the Constitution should be: “Has the common sense not to expose everyone’s personal information to the world.” T.C. Sottek reports: Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida….
FL: Tax security form mailing error exposes 1,200 taxpayers’ Form 1098 information
Mike Deeson: We are learning more about a tax form mailing mixup that is much more wide spread than we originally thought. The mailing error, which involved Form 1098 mailings, and which affected people as far away as Tennessee, was traced back to an error by a mailing service used by Multi Financial Services: Ryan is…
Altegrity Files Bankruptcy; Lost OPM contract following USIS hack
Add Altegrity to the short list of businesses that collapse following a data breach, although it may not be the consequences of the breach that were solely responsible. Since August 2014, Altegrity Inc., the government contractor principally owned by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, has been dealing with the consequences of a cyber-attack in one of its…