I don’t think investors’ lawsuits related to data breaches have been a particularly winning strategy to date, but if any investors’ suit has a chance, this one might – or at least, should have a chance. Maria Dinzeo reports that those who invested in Yahoo! are suing the company: A proposed class of hundreds of thousands…
Category: Business Sector
NYS A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Acer After Data Breach Exposed More Than 35,000 Credit Card Numbers
NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Acer Service Corporation (“Acer”), a computer manufacturer based in Taiwan, after a data breach of its website exposed over 35,000 credit card numbers. An investigation by the A.G.’s office revealed that sensitive Acer customer information was not protected by Acer for almost…
Delhi hackers, digital shoplifters who tampered data of e-commerce portals
Shiv Sunny reports: Four young hackers have been arrested for allegedly digitally shoplifting vouchers worth Rs92 lakh [$134,985.29 USD] by tampering with the data of e-commerce websites at the payment gateway stage. Two of them are BTech dropouts, one is pursuing engineering while the other is a BCA from Delhi University, police said. Calling it…
Ca: Grey Eagle Resort & Casino hacked; hackers threaten to dump sensitive employee and customer info
From the this-looks-like-it-is-going-to-get-ugly-really-quickly dept.: There was a somewhat ominous message posted on Pastebin on January 24: Grey Eagle Resort and Casino has been hacked hundreds of gigabytes of data has been stolen and will be released in several data dumps data includes customer gambling habits and gambling debt customer information names, DOB, phone numbers, Email, SIN…
Dirty secrets of 180,000 users of a porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ photos are leaked
Shivali Best reports: Users of a shady porn site that posts ‘upskirt’ pictures of women could have their dirty secrets exposed. Personal details of 180,000 users of The Candid Board have been uploaded to the internet after a security breach, along with details of their time of last login. Among the details were 68 military…
Realty firm fined $10,000 by Singapore regulator for data security failure
Singapore’s Personal Data Commission has imposed a $10,000 penalty on Propnex Realty for failing to make reasonable security arrangements to prevent unauthorized access of individuals’ personal data stored online. On December 28, 2015, the Personal Data Protection Commission (“Commission”) received a complaint from a complainant in relation to the publication online of the Propnex Realty’s internal…