Amitai Ziv reports: A serious security breach in an app called Remini left millions of pictures of Israeli children vulnerable to being leaked to the internet. Remini is an app that enables preschool teachers to stay in touch with parents. It allows them to share everything from pictures and videos through schedules of classroom activities…
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Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?
Update of March 12: After this story appeared on March 9, DataBreaches.net received a call from Superintendent Bradshaw, who had been out of town when my email had arrived. This story has been updated – and corrected occasionally – to incorporate his answers. If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive…
In: 53,000 cybersecurity incidents observed during 2017
For comparison purposes: “As per the information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a total number of 49,455, 50,362 and 53,081 cyber security incidents were observed during the year 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively,” IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha today. Read more…
This bill would make it easier for businesses to keep data breaches under wraps
David Lazarus has some unflattering words for a bill introduced in Congress by Representatives Blaine Luetkemeyer and Carolyn Maloney. Indeed, the Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act might be more aptly named the “Businesses Get Out of Jail Free Pass and Screw The Consumers Act of 2018.” Well, ok, I grant you that that…
Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Claims Against Zappos
In January, 2012, Zappos announced that they were notifying more than 24 million consumers to change their passwords following a hack. In the months that followed, a to-be-predicted lawsuit was filed, and state attorneys general started investigating. Eventually, Zappos settled with states, and the class-action lawsuit was dismissed in 2015. Whew, right? Not so fast, though. Ross Todd…
Airline Emirates ‘leaking customers’ sensitive data’
Kirsten Doyle reports that international airline Emirates is denying claims by a researcher claiming that they are leaking customers’ sensitive data. The alleged leak was discovered by Konark Modi, a data security engineer for Cliqz, who explained in post last Friday, how he was booking tickets for his family through the Emirates Web site when…