In one of the longer-running databreach lawsuits, a court has now approved the settlement in the Ameritrade case. Associated Press reports that the deal will cost Ameritrade between $2.5 million and $6.5 million. Settlement details are available online at www.accountdatasettlement.com.
Category: Breach Incidents
Citigroup Sued by Cardholders Over May Security Breach
Patricia Hurtado reports: Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-largest U.S. bank, was sued by cardholders over a May computer security breach that affected more than 360,000 accounts. Kristina and Steven Orman of Northport, New York, sued Citigroup in federal court in Manhattan today, seeking to represent victims of the hacking in a class-action, or group, lawsuit….
UGA personnel data posted on web site (Updated)
Laura Diamond reports: University of Georgia officials are investigating how personal data on nearly 19,000 employees was publicly available on a university web site since at least 2008. […] The database was created for internal purposes and included the Social Security number, date of birth, employee name and other sensitive information for everyone who was…
600+ accounts leaked from unijobs.com.au by @BlackHatGhosts
An Australian uni website that lists jobs has been hacked and had a dump of user logins leaked onto pastebin. this comes @blackhatghosts and contains usernames and passwords. UniJobs is Australia’s university job website. UniJobs enables all Australian universities to post their jobs on our centralised university job board. Job seekers visit UniJobs to search, find, compare and apply for university…
Some days, I pull my hair out, Thursday edition
Everywhere I look, there are data breaches that I would want to include in DataLossDB.org’s database. But as I backfill the database to include incidents reported on my blogs that were never in the database, my research stumbles over tons of other breaches that should also be included. Rather than getting closer and closer to…
Arrest over Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra’s Twitter hack
A 22yo has been arrested over the recent hacking that happened to the thai PM. Police say 22-year-old Aekawit Thongdeeworakul hacked into Yingluck Shinawatra’s account to post tweets accusing her of incompetence and cronyism. Aekawit had apparently sat next to Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap as he gave a news conference at his ministry in…