NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against several insurance companies doing business as National General and Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate) for failing to protect New Yorkers’ personal information from cyberattacks. In 2020 and 2021, National General suffered a pair of back-to-back data breaches that exposed the driver’s license numbers of…
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Texas Man Convicted of Sabotaging his Employer’s Computer Systems and Deleting Data
There’s an update to an indictment announced by the DOJ in April 2021. In today’s reminder of the insider threat, DOJ announced: A federal jury in Cleveland convicted a Texas man today for writing and deploying malicious code on his former employer’s network. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Davis Lu, 55,…
FTC, MGM close to solving dispute over costly 2023 cyberattack
Richard N. Velotta reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s dispute with MGM Resorts International over providing information about 2023’s costly cyberattack against the company may be coming to a resolution. The FTC has told MGM it plans to withdraw its civil investigative demand regarding the incident that cost the company an estimated $100 million and crippled the company’s…
FBCS updates the number affected in its 2024 breach to 4,253,394
Lawrence Abrams reports: Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has again increased the number of people impacted by a February [2024] data breach, now saying it affects 4.2 million people in the US. … The exposed data varies per individual but can include the following information: Full name Social Security Number (SSN)…
DISA Global Solutions reports more than 3.3 million people affected by 2024 data breach, but questions remain
On February 3, DataBreaches quoted a press release by BakerHostetler about a breach update from DISA Global Solutions that DISA had issued on January 23, 2025. BakerHostetler’s release was subsequently removed from their website, although a copy still currently exists at PublicNow. Of note, in their main takeaways section, BakerHostetler quoted DISA’s update and commented:…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Monday edition: TeammateApp
Another day, another leak, another inaccurate claim by an entity, and another inappropriate attack on a researcher. Buckle up. TeammateApp is not the sort of entity that DataBreaches usually reports on. DataBreaches decided to report on a data leak they reportedly experienced because once again, a well-intended researcher appears to have been falsely accused of…