Dan Sullivan reports: The Tampa teen who took control of well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to solicit more than $100,000 in Bitcoin pleaded guilty to state charges Tuesday in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. In a deal with prosecutors, Graham Ivan Clark agreed to serve three years in prison, followed by…
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French Data Watchdog CNIL Opens Probe Into Clubhouse App
Stephanie Bodoni reports: France’s data-protection watchdog said it’s opened a probe into private social media app Clubhouse following a complaint. French regulator CNIL said on Wednesday it questioned Alpha Exploration Co. Inc., the U.S. company behind the invite-only app, about the measures taken for the app to comply with EU rules on March 12. Read more on Bloomberg.
Ca: Coleman Group says it caught cyberattack in progress that may have accessed employee files
Mike Moore reports: The Coleman Group of Companies says it was the target of a cyberattack in late February and has reason to believe some of its human resources and payroll files were accessed. According to the company, those files contain names, addresses, social insurance numbers and banking information of employees both past and present. Greg Gill,…
Zoom convinces court to throw out some claims against it in consolidated lawsuit
Zoom reportedly convinced federal judge Lucy Koh to trim claims in consolidated class action lawsuits accusing them of illegally sharing data with and failing to shield users from “Zoombombings.” The Zoom Privacy Class Action Lawsuits are In re: Zoom Video Communications Inc. Privacy Litigation, Case No. 5:20-cv-02155-LHK, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,…
DE: EDAG Engineering Group AG affected by cyber attack
DGAP reports: Several EDAG Group companies were targeted by a cyber attack on the night of March 12th to 13th. In accordance with the emergency protocol, all affected IT network systems were shut down immediately. In accordance with the protocol, the IT crisis team called on all the necessary internal and external technical experts to determine…
Nebraska Man Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Stealing and Selling Employer’s Confidential Information
March 11- A Nebraska man was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for engaging in fraudulent activity that exposed his employer’s confidential information, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Timothy Young, 50, of Moorefield, Nebraska, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden in Newark federal court to an…