Sara Merken has a litigation update following a breach disclosed by Chegg A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against education technology company Chegg Inc over its 2018 data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 40 million users must proceed to arbitration. Read more on Reuters.
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Judge Again Pushes Back Nikulin’s Trial Over COVID-19 Concerns
Ross Todd reports: A federal judge in San Francisco has suspended the trial until June in a case against a Russian man accused of hacking Silicon Valley technology companies, which was underway when the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic. U.S. District William Alsup of the Northern District of California on Tuesday cited questionnaire…
Former Prime Communications employee sent personal info of thousands of Prime employees in prime email gaffe
Austin Breasette reports: Thousands of employees’ personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee’s email. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” said Tonya Smith. Smith said nothing but nervousness filled her mind after the human resources department sent her 105 pages of personal information of thousands of Prime Communications employees across…
Massive & Unprecedented Security Breach Takes Usenet Providers Offline
Andy writes: A massive security breach has taken at least one major Usenet provider offline. UseNext says that a “security hole in a partner company” could have revealed names and bank account information, exposing customers to fraud and identity theft. The precise nature of the breach isn’t clear but reports that a Usenet client has…
‘Smart’ parking meter vendor had data stolen in ransomware attack
Benjamin Freed reports: A company that sells “smart” parking meters and technology used by parking-enforcement agencies in cities around the world was recently the victim of a ransomware attack that also exposed some of its internal files on a website maintained by the hackers responsible. CivicSmart, a Milwaukee firm that sells parking meters capable of processing mobile…
Huiying Medical Breached; Source Code for AI-assisted COVID-19 Detection, and Experimental Data of COVID-19 on Sale
Cyble reports: Cyble researchers have identified a credible threat actor ‘THE0TIME’ claiming to have gained access to Huiying Medical Technology’s COVID-19 detection’s technology source code and COVID-19 experimental data. As part of the breach, the preparator (sic) claims to have gained access to the COVID-19 detection technology code, as well as COVID-19 experiments data as well. Read more on Medium.