Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese car maker Toyota announced its second data breach today, making it the second cyber-security incident the company acknowledged in the past five weeks. While the first incident took place at its Australian subsidiary, today’s breach was announced by the company’s main offices in Japan. The company said hackers breached its IT…
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Security researcher pleads guilty to hacking into Microsoft and Nintendo
Tom Warren reports: A 24-year-old security researcher narrowly avoided prison today, after admitting to hacking into Microsoft and Nintendo servers and stealing confidential information. Zammis Clark, known online as Slipstream or Raylee, was charged on multiple counts of computer misuse offenses in a London Crown Court on Thursday, and pleaded guilty to hacking into Microsoft…
Office Depot and Tech Support Firm Will Pay $35 Million to Settle FTC Allegations That They Tricked Consumers into Buying Costly Computer Repair Services
Office Depot, Inc. and a California-based tech support software provider have agreed to pay a total of $35 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the companies tricked customers into buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer repair and technical services by deceptively claiming their software had found malware symptoms on the customers’ computers….
DLA Piper Set to Sue Insurer Over NotPetya Claim: Report
Phil Muncaster reports that a major law firm has itself as a client in case that reminds us that attribution of a hack or malware attack can have all kinds of implications and consequences: DLA Piper has become the latest big name to be denied a multimillion-dollar cyber insurance claim following major losses caused by…
Computer hacker to represent himself in Isle of Man sentencing
Jason Roberts reports on a case in the Isle of Man: A man’s asked to represent himself as he awaits sentencing for computer hacking and data theft. 47 year old John Henry Griffin of Mona Drive in Douglas was convicted of two offences of unauthorised access of data and two of unlawful obtaining of personal…
Ca: Sunniva reports filing of class action lawsuit regarding privacy breach
CISO Magazine reports: PRNewswire: Sunniva Inc. recently reported that it has been named in a class action lawsuit, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Health Services Ltd. (“NHS”), in connection with a privacy breach of the Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) system used by NHS. Sunniva and NHS will defend this action. NHS identified that…