If you’re a cryptocurrency platform doing business in New York but are not registered with the state, Attorney General James will be coming after you. NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today continued her efforts to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency platforms by filing a lawsuit against KuCoin for failing to register…
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SEC Charges Software Company Blackbaud Inc. for Misleading Disclosures About Ransomware Attack That Impacted Charitable Donors
Washington D.C., March 9, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Blackbaud Inc., a South Carolina-based public company that provides donor data management software to non-profit organizations, agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges for making misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers. The SEC’s…
PDPC penalizes Eatigo over data protection failures leading to 2020 breach
On October 31, 2020, Eatigo reported a data breach of customer data and that the data had been put up for sale on a popular forum. The Personal Data Protection Commission investigated and found that: the personal data for sale on the online forum did not match any current databases in use by the Organisation…
AT&T Notifying some wireless customers of vendor incident
AT&T has been notifying some wireless customers of an incident involving an unnamed vendor. In a notice sent to a customer who shared it with DataBreaches, AT&T wrote: AT&T’s commitment to customer privacy and data security is a top priority. We recently determined that an unauthorized person breached a vendor’s system and gained access to…
ANOTHER Acer Data Breach? Hacker Claims to Sell 160GB Trove of Stolen Data
Waqas reports: Acer Inc., a major global technology company based in Taiwan, is facing a potential data breach from a hacker going by the alias “Kernelware.” The hacker is claiming responsibility for a major data breach at Acer Inc., a leading multinational company based in Taiwan that designs and sells hardware and electronics products. According to…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: Stormous claims attack on Zurcal The Zurcal group, which belongs to the energy saving and efficiency sector, has been named by Stormous Ransomware in its Telegram channel. The attack was posted on February 24 with images showing invoices and plans. Stormous gave the victim one week to respond. In a subsequent post, Stormous added…