Note: as Catalin Cimpanu points out on Twitter, “Neither RedLock nor Tesla confirmed that “confidential data” was stolen. Tesla said the opposite in their statement. The reporter is going out on a limb on this one.” Duncan Riley reports: Elon Musk may be able to send a Tesla Inc. vehicle into space, but apparently his…
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Can Your Business be Liable for an Employee’s Intentional Data Leak?
Revision Legal has a post about insider leaks. The article starts by discussing the Morrisons case in the UK, where an employee vindictively leaked data. In a ruling that surprised many, the court held that although Morrisons was a victim of their employee, other employees who sued Morrisons could hold Morrisons liable: This creates, in…
Roomsurf hacked?
The following was sent to DataBreaches.net this morning by someone claiming to have received it. Roomsurf did not respond to multiple emailed inquiries throughout the day and evening asking them to confirm or deny whether this was sent by them to members. Roomsurf.com’s site, which currently has no notice about any breach, claims that they…
A phishing attack scored credentials for more than 50,000 Snapchat users
Casey Newton reports: In late July, Snap’s director of engineering emailed the company’s team in response to an unfolding privacy threat. A government official from Dorset in the United Kingdom had provided Snap with information about a recent attack on the company’s users: a publicly available list, embedded in a phishing website named klkviral.org, that…
A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers—Again
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Last year, a vigilante hacker broke into the servers of a company that sells spyware to everyday consumers and wiped their servers, deleting photos captured from monitored devices. A year later, the hacker has done it again. Thursday, the hacker said he started wiping some cloud servers that belong to Retina-X Studios,…
UK: Businessman ‘seeking revenge’ turned to computer hacking against company
Elwyn Roberts reports: A businessman turned computer hacker has today been warned that he faces custody. Gavin Paul Prince had previously denied five offences under the Computer Misuse Act. But today he changed his pleas to guilty and Judge David Hale described his actions as seeking revenge against a company. Prince pleaded guilty to unauthorised…