Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems and stole large quantities of personal and commercial data. A group calling itself the…
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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel On Email Hacks: “Our Work Has Been Violated And Exposed”
Colleen Taylor reports: Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel today released a powerful statement about privacy, a day after the latest batch of emails released in the massive Sony Pictures hack exposed a number of Snapchat’s company secrets. On Tuesday afternoon, the hacker group that calls itself the “Guardians of Peace” released the contents of the email inbox of Sony…
Scottish Widows data protection error ‘costs customer £50k’
Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…
50,000 Reasons for Employees to Think Twice Before Taking Their Employer’s Copyright Works and Confidential Information
Lisa Egan and Caroline Judd of K&L Gates LLP write: Federal Court of Australia Decision in Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd v Koudstaal (No 3) [2014] FCA 1129 An ex-employee was recently ordered to pay his former employer AUD50,000 in damages after the Federal Court (Court) held that the employee had infringed copyright and breached his employment agreement and duty…
U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report: American officials have concluded that North Korea ordered the attacks on Sony Pictures’s computers, a determination reached as the studio decided Wednesday to cancel the release of a comedy movie about the assassination of Kim Jong-un that is believed to have led to the hacking. Senior administration officials, who would…
Banks Sue Kmart Over Credit Card Data Breach
Jack Bouboushian reports: Kmart’s failure to protect customer information with “elementary” security measures left banks liable for the resulting fraud, a federal class action claims. First NBC Bank filed the class action Tuesday against Kmart Corp. and parent company Sears Holding Corp, regarding an announcement that hackers had breached Kmart’s payment-data systems in early September….