From the is-anyone-really-surprised dept.: Saba Hamedy reports: Months after Sony Pictures Entertainment suffered from a crippling cyberattack, troves of the studio’s leaked information has resurfaced on WikiLeaks. The Julian Assange-run website, known for its massive release of classified U.S. military documents and diplomatic records, on Thursday published a searchable database called “The Sony Archives.” It contains 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures and…
Category: Business Sector
Target Settles Data Breach Lawsuit With MasterCard for $19M
Anne D’innocenzio and Marley Jay of AP report: Target and MasterCard say they’ve agreed to settle lawsuits over the discounter’s pre-Christmas 2013 massive data breach. Target said late Wednesday it has set aside up to $19 million for banks and credit unions issuing MasterCards that were caught in the data breach that compromised 40 million credit…
Hackers Make off With Data on 100,000 French State TV Contacts
AFP reports: Hackers bypassed insufficient safeguards to make off with data on 100,000 contacts held on French state TV computers, broadcasters said Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday and involved the theft of “a limited amount of personal data (names, postal and e-mail addresses and/or telephone numbers),” France Televisions said in a statement. The data heist…
UK law firms investigated 187 times for data protection breaches
John E. Dunn reports: UK law firms were investigated 187 times by the Information Commissioner in 2014 for possible breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA), a Freedom of Information (FoI) data by encryption firm Egress Software Technologies has revealed. It might be assumed that legal firms would be especially careful with personal data but…
Woman Sentenced For ID Theft From Texas Hotel Computers
KWTX reports that Courtni Heryford, 29, was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing personal information from people who used public computers at some Galveston, Texas hotels. Heryford pleaded guilty Monday in Galveston to fraudulent possession of identifying information. Read more on KWTX, although they don’t explain which hotels or what kind of contact…
Zillow fighting lawsuits alleging theft of trade secrets
I came across two cases in the news this morning, both involving Zillow, that allege insider data theft/trade secrets theft: Move and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) filed additional court documents Friday following receipt of a letter from an anonymous whistleblower, presumably a Zillow employee, who alleges widespread misappropriation of trade secrets and data theft by…