Once again, we see a timeline where it took a loooong time before an entity actually discloses a breach, but the entity’s explanation involves how long it took to determine who was impacted. In this case, it tood from June 14, when they first became suspicious of activity that had occurred in March until November…
Category: Hack
PayPal Users Hit With Fraudulent ‘Target’ Charges via Google Pay
Lawrence Abrams reports: Hackers are using an unknown method to make fraudulent charges on PayPal accounts linked via GooglePay. These transactions are being charged through Target stores or Starbucks in the United States even though the account holders are in Germany. Starting on February 22nd, numerous people in Germany began reporting [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] that their PayPal…
Honors mailing list hacked, offensive memes in email chain reported to dean of students
Rachel Sawicki reports: The honors email list for the class of 2022 and 2023 was hacked last week, and the email chain of replies, containing an offensive meme, may have consequences for the student who sent it. […] Michael Chajes, director of the university Honors Program, said that no personal information was compromised and whoever…
Handshake security breach affects thousands of university students
Sarra Sundstrom reports: Handshake, the university’s job search platform, experienced a security incident last week that directly affected over 8,000 students and alumni. On Feb. 13, a number of students received a security alert from the university’s Career Center that an unknown party posing as a company on Handshake accessed student resumes. Resumes of 4,003…
Personal information of nearly 360,000 Quebec teachers exposed in data breach
Canadian Press reports: The personal information of nearly 360,000 teachers in Quebec may have been stolen in a data theft, the Quebec government confirmed on Friday. Quebec’s Treasury Board took stock in the wake of the ongoing investigation by the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) into identity theft of people working or having worked as teachers….
Lawsuit filed against MGM Resorts International over data breach
From the this-is-my-shocked-face department. Lucas Wright reports: A lawsuit has been filed against MGM Resorts, following the news that the company experienced a data breach last summer. Florida law group “Morgan & Morgan” says MGM failed to protect the 10 million customers’ personal information, they say was compromised. They also say the company tried to…