Cullen Paradis reports: Zhang Feng, an executive at China’s most valuable public company Tencent Holdings, has been detained by authorities in connection to a data leak and corruption scandal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Zhang is accused of sending user data from the messaging app juggernaut WeChat to Sun Lijun, the former vice public security minister now…
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Made in India Koo app denies claims of data leak, talks about Chinese connection
Sneha Saha reports: Koo app or the so-called Indian alternative of Twitter is gaining wide popularity in the country as the battle between the Indian government and the microblogging site continues. The social media app has been downloaded by over three million Android users already, which is a big number for a Made in India…
Employee Confidentiality and Data Theft: Recent UK Developments
Christopher Walter, Helena Milner-Smith, Louise Freeman, Dan Cooper, Mark Young, and Mark Welch of Covington and Burling write, in part: Unauthorized Access to Personal Data was an Offence under the Computer Misuse Act The ICO recently published details of its prosecution of a motor industry employee who, during her employment, compiled and transferred road traffic…
Is it time to ban ransomware insurance payments?
Alex Scroxton reports: … According to [the founding head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)], the ransomware problem is now being exacerbated by victims paying ransoms to their extortionists and then claiming back this sum on their insurance. He described this as an “incentive” that encourages victims to pay to solve their problem quickly. He…
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Releases School District Audit
Lyncourt Union Free School District – Information Technology (Onondaga County) District officials did not adequately manage network user accounts or develop and adopt a written disaster recovery plan. As a result, the district has an increased risk that it could lose important data and suffer serious interruption in operations. District officials should have disabled 17…
When to Report a Breach: Consideration of Encryption States
Matt Fisher of Carium writes: Data breaches grab headlines on a daily basis and arise from a number of different scenarios. However, one question that is not necessarily examined closely (at least in news articles), is whether encryption was in place and why the encryption did not prevent the breach. That rhetorical question does not…