BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey today announced multistate settlements with Experian, totaling over $13.67 million, concerning data breaches in 2012 and 2015 that compromised the personal information of millions of consumers nationwide. A $2.5 million multistate settlement was also reached with T-Mobile in connection with the 2015 Experian breach, which impacted more than 15 million individuals…
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Deloitte India fires employee after hacking sting exposes alleged hacking activities
Vinod Mahanta reports: Deloitte India said it has fired the person who was reportedly running a hacking firm on the side. The Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism conducted a sting operation that’s said to have exposed India-based hacking groups targeting VIPs globally. Aditya Jain, an associate director with Deloitte’s cyber unit, was…
SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: SolarWinds has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit, and it’s also expecting to be slapped with an enforcement action by Uncle Sam – both related to its infamous 2020 supply chain security fiasco, according to the software maker’s most recent US regulatory filing. At the end of…
Boeing Subsidiary Jeppesen’s Services Hit By Cyberattack
Danny Lee reports: Boeing Co. unit Jeppesen has been hit by a cyberattack that’s affecting access to its flight planning software, which is used by airlines globally. “Our subsidiary, Jeppesen, experienced a cyber incident affecting certain flight planning products and services,” Boeing spokesman Yukui Wang said in an email Friday. “There has been some flight planning disruption, but…
Cyberattack Disrupts Trains in Denmark
Eduard Kovacs reports: According to Danish broadcaster DR, all trains operated by DSB, the largest train operating company in the country, came to a standstill on Saturday morning and could not resume their journey for several hours. While this may sound like the work of a sophisticated threat actor that targeted operational technology (OT) systems in…
LinkedIn Scores Partial Win in Long-Running Data Scraping Feud
Andrea Vittorio reports: A workforce analytics firm breached LinkedIn Corp.‘s user agreement by scraping data and using fake accounts to fuel its now-defunct business, a federal court in San Francisco ruled in a lengthy dispute that’s on a path to trial. The ruling, made public Friday, represents a partial win for LinkedIn in a case that…