Full Title: In the Matter of Liberty Latin America Limited, Liberty Mobile Puerto Rico Inc., Liberty Mobile USVI Inc. Document Type: Consent Decree Order Bureau(s): Enforcement Description FCC EB settles with Liberty for $100K civil penalty resolving an investigation into whether Liberty failed to report a data breach in a timely manner as required and failed…
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Star ed-tech company discloses data breach
Paulina Okunytė reports: Learnosity, an e-learning platform with more than 40 million learners, has disclosed a cybersecurity incident that affected users’ private data. A notice to affected clients on June 17th informed users of a “data security incident” that may have exposed their data. A publicly shared copy of the notice did not specify the…
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended
Jessica Lyons reports: Lawmakers on Thursday grilled Microsoft president Brad Smith about the Windows giant’s businesses dealing in China — and the super-corp’s repeated security failings — at a time when Beijing-backed spies are accused of breaking into Microsoft-hosted email accounts of American government officials. A US House committee hearing was held in response to…
Insider threat: Months after being fired, former employee accessed company’s computer test system and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
CNA reports: Singapore: Upset that he was fired, an employee accessed his former company’s computer test systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them about S$918,000 (US$678,000). Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorised access to computer material. Another charge was…
You permanently closed your business and then got hit with a ransomware attack. It just doesn’t seem fair, does it?
From a breach notification by civil law firm Santoro Whitmire in Las Vegas: Recently, after the firm permanently closed its business, we were the target of a ransomware attack. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts computer systems until and unless we pay money (i.e., the ransom) demanded by the attackers. We immediately notified law…
Snowflake to Close Hacking Probe Into Attack Targeting Clients
Charles Gorrivan and Brody Ford report: Snowflake Inc. plans to close its own investigation this week into a hacking campaign that ensnared as many as 165 of its customers. The cloud data and analytics company hasn’t detected any unauthorized access into customer accounts since early last week, Chief Information Security Officer Brad Jones, said in an interview with Bloomberg News….