Matthew Diener reports: A hacker going by Ethical Spectrum has allegedly hacked Supercell‘s official Clash of Clans and Hay Day Facebook pages. Going one step further, the hacker posted an unverified screenshot which purports to show some enticing figures for Supercell – namely, its DAU [Daily Active User] and ARPDAU [verage Revenue Per Daily Active User]. It’s unclear as…
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MN: Update to Olmstead Medical Center breach
The Post-Bulletin reports: Olmsted Medical Center is mailing letters today and Tuesday to about 500 former employees, alerting them to the possibility that their personal information might have been compromised in a data breach, according to OMC officials. Last week, OMC confirmed that current employee data had been taken. The ongoing investigation has not revealed…
Bank of the West notifies former job applicants of data security breach (update2)
If you applied for a job at Bank of the West prior to December 19, 2013, your personal information, including your Social Security number, driver’s license number, and date of birth, may be in the hands of a hacker. The bank isn’t certain whether personal information was acquired by unauthorized individuals who were able to…
What should Comcast have advised customers after breach?
So while I was offline, Comcast sent me a statement on Feb. 7 in response to repeated requests for a statement about a breach reported here on Feb. 5: “We’re aware of the situation and are aggressively investigating it,” a Comcast spokesman said. “We take our customers’ privacy and security very seriously and we currently…
Why Canada’s Privacy Commissioner and CRTC should heed PIAC/CAC’s recommendations about Bell’s “Relevant Ads Program”
This post originally appeared on PogoWasRight.org. I am cross-posting it here because I think NullCrew’s hack should inform policy decisions and public debate about a program of Bell’s that involves a lot of sharing of consumers’ personal information with “affiliates.” Bell (BCE, Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Bell Aliant and their affiliates) believes it is engaging…
St. Louis member of “Anonymous” sentenced for DDoS on Koch Industries subsidiary
Christopher Michael Sudlik, 22, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months’ probation, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $110,932.71 in restitution. The sentence was announced yesterday by James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Sudlik had previously pled guilty for participating in #OpWisconsin with other members…