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Student sues San Dieguito district, says classmate cyberstalked her, hacked her grades

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Dissent

I missed this one when it was first published two weeks ago, but apart from the privacy issues involving cyberstalking, it involves a hack of a school district’s information system and a class action lawsuit against the software firm.   Kristen Taketa reported: Haley Dinsmore was 12 when a classmate at Earl Warren Middle School asked…

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Hackers leak full EA data after failed extortion attempt

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hackers who breached Electronic Arts last month have released the entire cache of stolen data after failing to extort the company and later sell the stolen files to a third-party buyer. The data, dumped on an underground cybercrime forum on Monday, July 26, is now being widely distributed on torrent sites….

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Cayuga Medical Center and Wisconsin Institute of Urology notifying patients of breaches

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Dissent

In addition to a breach reported by Renaissance, two other breaches involving protected health information were disclosed yesterday. Here’s what you might want to know about those: Cayuga Medical Center We are still first learning about some victims of the Accellion data breach that took place back in December and January when threat actors exploited…

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EE: RIA unlikely to be fined over mass photo hack, victims not compensated

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Dissent

ERR News reports that a recently reported data security incident is unlikely to result in any monetary penalty or compensation claims: A recent hack by a single individual of close to 300,000 personal identification photos from the State Information System (RIA) is unlikely either to result in compensation to those whose data was stolen, or…

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DOJ says SolarWinds hack impacted 27 state attorneys’ offices

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Russian hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack pivoted to the internal network of the US Department of Justice, from where they gained access to Microsoft Office 365 email accounts belonging to employees at 27 state attorneys’ offices, the DOJ said in a statement on Friday afternoon. Read more on…

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Zynga wins bids to compel arbitration, toss data breach case

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Dissent

Sara Merken reports an update to litigation following GnosticPlayers’ hack of Zynga in 2019:  A California federal judge on Friday dealt a blow to plaintiffs suing mobile game developer Zynga Inc over a 2019 data breach, greenlighting a bid to compel arbitration of some users’ claims and granting a motion to dismiss the rest. The ruling in…

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