Elise Viebeck reports: The number of individuals victimized in a cyberattack on a major background investigation service is higher than previously reported, the House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat said Wednesday. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) reported that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees compromised in the breach of government contractor USIS is now believed to…
Category: Business Sector
The Bad News For Infosec In The Target Settlement: OpEd
Giora Engel of LightCyber writes: The legal argument behind the $10 million Class Action lawsuit and subsequent settlement is a gross misrepresentation of how attackers operate. Central to the recent Target data breach lawsuit settlement was the idea that cyber attacks are mechanistic and follow a prescribed course or chain of events. The judge hearing the case…
Uber’s PR woes just continue
Uber’s problems just keep multiplying, it seems. Not only did they have a “God View” privacy PR disaster that had a member of Congress inquiring, but then they had a data breach exposing customers’ lost-and-found items. Since then, they have had problems with Canada, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, their drivers’ information was hacked (for which…
Ca: Detour Gold Corporation hacked
It looks like Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) was massively hacked. In a paste by “Angel_of_Truth,” the hackers explain their motivation in both Russian and then English: This attack on a Canadian company is retribution for Canada’s sanctions on Russia, And the ongoing efforts to undermine Russia by the West. Below is some of the data that was…
Ca: Northwestel customer information exposed on website
CBC reports Northwestel has contacted 25 people to apologize after information from customer requests for digital TV was exposed on its website. The information may have included phone numbers as well as postal and e-mail addresses. Read more on CBC.
Teenagers Suspected of Hacking Belgian and French Websites
AFP reports: Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. “The regional unit of computer crime managed …to identify the presumed perpetrators” of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement. The attacks were launched against the websites of Le…