Zack Whittaker reports: T-Mobile has confirmed that millions of current and former customers had their information stolen in a data breach, following reports of a hack over the weekend. In a statement, T-Mobile, which has more than 100 million customers, said its preliminary analysis shows 7.8 million current postpaid T-Mobile customers had information taken in the…
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Florida Woman Convicted Of Damaging Her Former Employer’s Computers After She Was Fired
Here’s today’s reminder why you need to be sure to terminate access when you fire someone. How did she still have access two days later? It will be interesting to see what her sentence is and how much restitution she will have to pay. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of…
Pearson to pay $1M fine for misleading investors about 2018 data breach
Carly Page reports: Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement on Monday after the…
Colonial Pipeline notifying 5,810 people whose PII and PHI were caught up in DarkSide breach
On August 13, external counsel for Colonial Pipeline notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that on July 1, the firm’s investigation into the May DarkSide ransomware attack revealed that personally identifiable and protected health information for some people had been accessed: Based on our investigation, we recently learned that the incident affected certain of your…
Destination Maternity notifying 93,776 employees of hacking incident
New Jersey-headquartered Destination Maternity is notifying 93,776 employees about an incident that occurred between March 16 and April 13 of this year. The breach was discovered on June 11. According to their letter of August 13, a copy of which was provided to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, an unauthorized party gained access to certain…
Ford bug exposed customer and employee records from internal systems
Ax Sharma reports: A bug on Ford Motor Company’s website allowed for accessing sensitive systems and obtaining proprietary data, such as customer databases, employee records, internal tickets, etc. The data exposure stemmed from a misconfigured instance of Pega Infinity customer engagement system running on Ford’s servers. Read more on BleepingComputer.