SAN FRANCISCO –Uber Technologies, Inc., has entered a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve a criminal investigation into the coverup of a significant data breach suffered by the company in 2016, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan. As part of a non-prosecution…
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Recent cyberattacks put Thai citizens’ privacy and data security at greater risk
In December of 2021, Thailand’s National Cyber Security Agency launched after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, it announced that it intended to roll out 40 subordinate regulations of the Cybersecurity Act this year to strengthen the country’s systems. It sounds like an ambitious — but badly needed — update. For the past…
Perth Festival, Black Swan Theatre and other arts organisations hit by major data breach
Rebeccca Trigger reports: Western Australia’s biggest arts organisations, including the Perth Festival, Black Swan State Theatre Company, the WA ballet and WA opera have been subject to a massive data breach that has compromised customers’ personal information. Customers received an email this afternoon from the Arts and Culture Trust saying third-party software used by the…
CentralSquare settles one Click2Gov data breach lawsuit
Between 2018 and the end of 2020, DataBreaches published dozens of news reports on municipal breaches involving CentralSquare’s ClicktoGov software. The software allows residents to pay utility bills or other municipal bills online. Now Top Class Actions reports that CentralSquare has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle litigation by some consumers. Consumers whose credit…
Cn: Two hackers get arrested five days after their release for making $300,000 illegal profits
Global Times reports: Two hackers in Tongling, East China’s Anhui Province, were arrested by local police after they had been released from prison for only five days and made 2 million yuan($300,000) in illegal profits. The local police had lately discovered that the backend data of a company in its jurisdiction had been hacked, and…
Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore
Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore include the following: Directions were issued to Crawfort Pte to conduct a security audit of its technical and administrative arrangements for its AWS S3 environment and rectify any security gaps identified in the audit report. This is pursuant to a data breach incident where Crawfort’s customer…