Members of Congress Call for IRS to Investigate Tax Companies Sharing Data with Facebook The Markup revealed the companies’ practices last year By: Colin Lecher and Simon Fondrie-Teitler Three congressional Democrats are demanding that the Internal Revenue Service investigate tax preparation companies for sharing sensitive taxpayer data with Facebook after The Markup revealed the practice…
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110,000 more users affected in mobile carrier LG Uplus’ data breach
Yonhap News reports: LG Uplus Corp. said Friday last month’s data breach affected a total of 290,000 users, about 110,000 more than initially suspected. On Jan. 10, the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier disclosed that personal data of 180,000 customers, including their names, birth dates and phone numbers, had been breached. Read more at Yonhap News.
Acuity Brands allegedly failed to protect employee info during data breaches – lawsuit
Jessy Edwards reports on litigation stemming from breaches previously noted on this site. Acuity Brands was negligent in its data security, leading to two data breaches that exposed as many as 37,000 people’s personal information to hackers, a new class action lawsuit alleges. Plaintiffs Andrew Smith and Mackenzie Fairfield—both former employees of the lighting company—filed…
Former Employee Ubiquiti Networks Pleads Guilty To Stealing Confidential Data And Extorting Company For Ransom
There’s an update to a previously reported case involving a former employee of Ubiquiti Networks, although as is their policy, the DOJ does not name the victim firm: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICKOLAS SHARP pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to multiple federal…
Au: Black and White Cabs booking service offline after cyber attack
Michelle Tapper reports: A cyber attack on Black and White Cabs has shut down the company’s phone and online booking system. Suspicious activity was detected by staff on Wednesday morning and a “serious threat” to the company was determined in the afternoon. Black and White Cabs has confirmed that a CryptoLocker virus has infiltrated its…
Skyview Networks Suffers Security Incident
Matthew Keys reports: An unauthorized person or group gained access to internal systems used by Skyview Networks this week, disrupting the delivery of the CBS World News Roundup and other programming to radio affiliates on Monday. The issue was confirmed in an email sent to Radio Ink by Steve Jones, the president and CEO of Skyview, who said…