Erin Hudson reports: Thousands of New York residents who live in buildings run by Douglas Elliman’s property management arm may have had their personal information compromised this month. Douglas Elliman Property Management’s three managing directors emailed hundreds of co-operative and condominium boards Monday to advise them that the company’s IT network — which contains data…
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Kansas Department of Labor looking into possible data breach
Caroline Elliott reports: A KWCH investigation in February helped to launch a Kansas Department of Labor investigation after the investigation discovered a way to use social security numbers on the KDOL website to pull up anyone’s personal information. Eyewitness News reporter Caroline Elliott has been looking into the issue for months and Tuesday, April 20, Eyewitness…
11th Circuit Asked to Toss Out Massive US Data Breach Settlement
Izzy Kapnick reports: A $380 million settlement over the 2017 Equifax data breach is hanging in the balance in the 11th Circuit, where a tort-reform attorney argued Tuesday that the deal unfairly lumped all plaintiffs into a single class. During the cantankerous appellate hearing, a three-judge panel weighed whether to preserve the historic settlement arising…
Internal Facebook Memo Reveals Company Plan to ‘Normalize’ News of Data Leaks After 500 Million User Breach
Adam Smith reports: A leaked internal Facebook memo has inadvertently revealed the social media giant’s tactics after its recent data scraping controversy. Approximately 535 million accounts, one of which belonged to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, had their personal information exposed. Online tools allowed anyone to check if their information, which included phone numbers, was revealed. Facebook said it would…
FL: Hackers post 26,000 Broward school files online
Scott Travis reports: Hackers who demanded up to $40 million from the Broward School District have now published nearly 26,000 files stolen from district servers. An initial review by the South Florida Sun Sentinel found a few isolated incidents where confidential student or employee information was released, but none that contained Social Security numbers. The…
School system mistakenly releases names of students, staff with COVID
Jim McConnell reports: The local school system failed to properly redact personal information from a document requested through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, inadvertently releasing to a parent last week the names of all Chesterfield County Public Schools students and employees who have reported testing positive for COVID-19. Chesterfield resident Grace Olsen, the mother…