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Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Dissent

Update of March 12: After this story appeared on March 9, DataBreaches.net received a call from Superintendent Bradshaw, who had been out of town when my email had arrived. This story has been updated – and corrected occasionally – to incorporate his answers. If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive…

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Ca: JJ Meds was attacked today

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Dissent

JJ Meds is a medical marijuana delivery service in Canada. They seem to have received an extortion demand, as they explained on the CanadianMOM forum (“MOM” refers to Mail Order Marijuana, not that lovely woman who made you peanut butter and jelly sandwiches): Hi everyone, we wanted to share with the community what has happened.Drama: Today…

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Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Claims Against Zappos

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Dissent

In January, 2012, Zappos announced that they were notifying more than 24 million consumers to change their passwords following  a hack. In the months that followed, a to-be-predicted lawsuit was filed, and state attorneys general started investigating. Eventually, Zappos settled with states, and the class-action lawsuit was dismissed in 2015. Whew, right? Not so fast, though. Ross Todd…

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Spy v. Spy: An NSA Leak Reveals the Agency’s List of Enemy Hackers

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: When the still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers spilled a collection of NSA tools onto the internet in a series of leaks starting in 2016, they offered a rare glimpse into the internal operations of the the world’s most advanced and stealthy hackers. But those leaks haven’t just let the outside world…

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Settlement proposed in Yahoo data breach securities litigation

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Dissent

Judy Greenwald reports: An $80 million settlement has been proposed in a securities class litigation filed in connection with Yahoo Inc. data breaches in 2013 and 2014. The proposed settlement in In re Yahoo Inc. securities litigation, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Friday, was publicized Monday. In December 2016, Yahoo announced…

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Equifax discovers another 2.4 million customers hit by data breach

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Equifax Inc (EFX.N), a provider of consumer credit scores, on Thursday said it found another 2.4 million U.S. consumers hit by a data breach last year, bringing the total to 147.9 million. The company said the latest batch of consumers affected had their names and driver’s license information stolen, but noted less information…

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