MyNewsLA reports: A 19-year-old was charged with illegally hacking into student Google Classroom accounts to post racist and homophobic photos, videos and comments in classes at his former high school, authorities announced Thursday. Aaron Ketelaar allegedly hacked into several accounts at Villa Park High School on Dec. 18, 2020, and posted racist photos and comments…
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Long Island Jewish school’s website hacked with Nazi images, slurs
Fox News reports: Anti-Semitic images, slurs and songs were posted on the website of a Jewish school in Long Island on Monday in an apparent hack, video shows. The North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s homepage was splattered with a Swastika and clip of marching Nazi SS guards, according to the footage posted on Twitter. […]…
Za: Standard Bank on delay in telling public about data breach: ‘We complied with the law’
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…
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…