Alex Scroxton reports: Supermarket chain Morrisons has succeeded in its appeal to the Supreme Court against judgments that held it liable for an insider data breach caused by a disgruntled employee. In its unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court said previous judgments had fundamentally misunderstood the principles governing vicarious liability in a number of ways, most notably because…
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Virgin Media facing lawsuit over exposed database
It’s Wednesday, so law firms continue to try to round up clients for potential class action lawsuits by making big noises about how much money a company might be required to pay out. Emer Scully reports: Virgin Media could be forced to pay up to £4.5billion to customers whose personal data was published online –…
Marriott data breach exposes personal data of 5.2 million guests
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Marriott has informed 5.2 million guests that their personal details were inappropriately accessed in a possible data breach. Contacts details, loyalty account information, company, gender, birthday, partnerships and affiliations and room preferences were among guests’ details accessed between mid-January and February 2020. Read more on ITPro.
Houseparty app offers $1m reward to unmask entity behind hacking smear campaign
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Houseparty, a video conferencing desktop and mobile application, said it would pay a $1 million bounty to anyone who could unmask the entity behind what the company described as “a paid commercial smear campaign.” The company’s apparent anger comes after Houseparty has been at the center of media reports published yesterday by…
Medical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by data-stealing DoppelPayme ransomware
Zack Whittaker reports: Kimchuk, a medical and military electronics maker, has been hit by data-stealing ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. The Danbury, Conn.-based manufacturer, which builds electronics for medical equipment, telecoms systems and energy grids, also makes nuclear modules for the Navy, work that often requires security clearance. Read more on TechCrunch.
Indian property site hack leads to 2 million users’ data exposed
Hindustan Times reports: Private data of more than 2 million users were shared on a hacking forum following a major security breach of the Indian property website PropTiger in 2018. According to a new Have I been pwned alert, the exposed data contains both user records and login histories with more than 2 million unique customer email…