More than one year after it first discovered a breach, a Florida law firm is notifying people about it. While the firm’s notification suggests that it is notifying out of an abundance of caution because it cannot actually determine whose data may have been accessed — or acquired, an alternative way to look at this…
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Feds Eye Swiss Hacker Tied to Major Security Cam Breach
Dell Cameron reports: Swiss authorities on Friday raided the home of a computer hacker reportedly under FBI investigation who has also—unrelatedly—taken credit for the recent breach of U.S. security camera company. The company, Verkada Inc., has itself separately been accused of granting employees extraneous access to the private surveillance feeds of potentially thousands of global customers. Read…
Hackers Rushed in as Microsoft Raced to Avert Mass Cyber-Attack
Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…
Fastway Couriers Notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a Hack
Ciara Plunkett reports: The Irish Data Protection Commission says it’s received a breach notification from Fastway Couriers. The customer data impacted includes: names, addresses, email accounts and phone numbers, but the company says nobody’s financial data was at risk. Read more on KFM. Updated March 13: NewsTalk has some more details: The company has confirmed…
TR: Adim Adim hacked
The following is not a great translation, so what you need to know is that a volunteer Turksih organization that promotes charitable donations through events like marathons, was hacked. From Adim Adim’s web site: Volunteers In Pursuit of Goodness and Their Donors Who Are With Them At Every Step … As we have informed you…
Multi-state settlement in 2019 American Medical Collection Agency breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement between a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from around the nation and the Westchester County debt collection agency Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that resolves a multistate investigation into the company’s 2019 data breach. The breach exposed the personal information —…