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Indiana Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracies Involving Cyber Intrusion and $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Dissent

SIOUX FALLS – United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that Evan Frederick Light, age 21, of Lebanon, Indiana, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica Duffy on September 30, 2024, and pleaded guilty to an Indictment that charged him with Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Conspiracy to Launder Monetary Instruments. The maximum penalty for each…

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Former Epsilon Senior Executive and Sales Manager Both Sentenced for Selling Data on Millions of U.S. Consumers to Fraudsters

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by Dissent

Here is yet another case that reminds us of the insider threat. In this case, the defendants misused Epsilon’s algorithms to predict and sell lists of consumers most likely to respond to fraudster’s schemes’ mailings. Epsilon settled its criminal liability via a deferred prosecution agreement to pay $150 million in penalties and victim compensation and…

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FCC Reaches Multi-Million Dollar Settlement Of Investigations Into T-Mobile Data Breaches With Significant Improvements To Company’s Cybersecurity

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Dissent

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2024—The Federal Communications Commission today announced a groundbreaking data protection and cybersecurity settlement with T-Mobile to resolve the Enforcement Bureau’s investigations into significant data breaches that impacted millions of U.S. consumers. To settle the investigations, T-Mobile has agreed to important forward-looking commitments to address foundational security flaws, work to improve cyber hygiene,…

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French news agency AFP hit by cyberattack

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Dissent

DPA reports: French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has been hit by a cyberattack, the agency said in a statement on Saturday. The attack on AFP’s IT system, which partly affected transmission technology to customers, was discovered on Friday. It is unclear who was behind the attack. AFP’s technical department, assisted by the National Cybersecurity…

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Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords

Posted on September 27, 2024September 27, 2024 by Dissent

Natasha Lomas reports: Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a reprimand and a €91 million fine — around $101.5M USD at current exchange rates — after concluding a multi-year investigation into a 2019 security breach by Facebook’s parent company. […]…

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Will victims increasingly turn to courts to suppress publication of stolen data? (1)

Posted on September 27, 2024September 27, 2024 by Dissent

What do you do when you have suffered an embarrassing data breach, your attacker(s) are taunting and criticizing you publicly, and some of your data has already been leaked? This month, DataBreaches notes that two victims in different countries are both seeking court injunctions in the hope that they can get stolen data removed from…

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