Londiwe Buthelezi reports: Standard Bank says it took several days to disclose the latest data breach on its LookSee platform because its immediate focus was to get to the bottom of the issue first and understand how serious it was. The banking group informed the public on 9 December that homeowners’ data was compromised by…
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Canadian federal privacy commissioner says BMO security breach in 2017 affected 113,000 client accounts
James Bradshaw reports: A 2017 data breach that exposed personal information belonging to more than 113,000 Bank of Montreal customers exploited “significant weaknesses” in the bank’s safeguards that have since been strengthened, according to a report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. BMO previously disclosed the breach in May, 2018, after receiving a ransom demand…
News Group settle News of the World and Sun hacking claims, Statements in Open Court
On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. This claim was against the Sun alone. Her statement in…
Class Action Lawsuit Over StockX Hack Dismissed
Victor Deng reports: StockX’s legal saga in connection with a data breach that affected millions of users in 2019 is one step closer to wrapping up after a federal judge in charge of the case dismissed the consolidated class action lawsuit. According to The Fashion Law, Michigan District Judge Victoria Roberts has granted StockX’s motion to dismiss the complaints against the secondary marketplace citing…
Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
Brian Krebs fleshes out more about Matthew Philbert, the Canadian man arrested in Canada and charged in both the U.S. and Canada with a number of cybercrimes. Once again, Krebs provides a great example of solid research. Read his report at KrebsOnSecurity. Interestingly, Krebs ends his article with a comment that tends to agree with…
18 fake birth certificates generated in Hisar after health department hacked
TNN reports that the Hisar health department was hacked and 18 fake birth certificates were generated. The hack and faked certificates were reportedly known five months ago but a case is just being filed now, it seems. Read more at Times of India