Cameron Abbott and Jacqueline Patishmanof K&L Gates write: In 2017, Uber disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) a breach of its some 57 million global users and driver’s personal information (including approximately 1.2 million Australians). Last Friday, the OAIC determined that Uber had breached the Australian Privacy Act by failing to take reasonable steps to…
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When Ransomware Group REvil Vanished, Its Victims Were Stranded
While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not pay anyone in any way to obtain — there are are still other victims of REvil struggling. Kartikay Mehrotra…
Convenience Store Chain Can’t Shield Investigative Report on Data Breach From Discovery, Judge Rules
We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client privilege. But if the attorney doesn’t word the contract carefully, any report may not be covered by the doctrine. We saw that in a…
De: Hidden crypto farm in Frankfurt restaurant exposed
Hessenchau reports: During hygiene checks in a Frankfurt restaurant, investigators came across a suspected crypto farm. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous in this case: the computers were next to gas bottles. While inspecting a restaurant in downtown Frankfurt, investigators from the city police came across a suspected crypto farm. It was literally…
AIG unit must defend Texas retailer Landry’s in data breach case
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court reversed a lower court Wednesday and ruled an American International Group Inc. unit is obligated to defend a retailer in connection with a data breach. Houston-based Landry’s Inc., which operates retail properties including restaurants, hotels and casinos, discovered a data breach that occurred between May 2014 and December…
Gun owners’ fears after firearms dealer data breach
Holly Clemens & Chris Vallance report: Thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a leading website for buying and selling shotguns and rifles have been published to the dark web following a “security breach”. Guntrader.uk told the BBC it learned of the breach on Monday and had notified the Information Commissioner’s Office….