Jem Aswad reports: Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming platform has announced that it has enlisted an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” to investigate a possible data breach, according to Music Business Worldwide. While the platform has been accused of exaggerating its subscriber numbers and streaming numbers for Kanye West’s “Life of Pablo” and Beyonce’s “Lemonade” albums —…
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Notice of Data Breach at blackphoenixalchemylab.com
Elizabeth Barrial of Black Phoenix Lab posted the following notice last night: Please forgive me for the time it took to publish this. I wanted to make sure we had all the facts before I posted, and I needed to ensure that I used the correct format for the notice as required by law. NOTICE…
CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer
CBC News reports on a CBC breach: The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment. “An intruder recently broke into a secure area of CBC/Radio-Canada, stealing a piece of computer…
Mason Law Office notifies clients of hack involving mycase.com
So for a law firm, I would think this would be a really bad breach to have to disclose. Mason Law Office in Sacramento sent a copy of their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office. Their notification reads, in part: What happened? On or about May 5, 2018, we discovered evidence of unauthorized access…
myPersonality app data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users
Phee Waterfield and Timothy Revell report: Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a New Scientist investigation has found. Academics at the University of Cambridge distributed the data from the personality quiz app myPersonality to hundreds of researchers…
Irish Data Protection Commissioner investigating cyber attack that claimed player details from World Rugby
Gavin Mairs reports: World Rugby has been forced to suspend one of its websites after the governing body was the target of a cyber attack that saw hackers obtain personal data from thousands of subscribers to one of their databases, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. It is understood that the hackers were able to access…