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Facebook’s lawyers blast attorney fees bid in Adkins v. Facebook settlement

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Dissent

Sara Merken reports: Facebook Inc is pushing back on plaintiffs lawyers’ request for nearly $12 million in fees and costs for securing an injunctive relief-only settlement stemming from a 2018 cyberattack that affected millions of Facebook users. […] The litigation stemmed from a September 2018 breach that affected the personal information of about 29 million…

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How do you make a data breach even worse? You notify the victims that they are dead.

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

The headline says it all: Some Treasure Valley residents receiving letters from Saint Alphonsus saying they are dead The situation started routinely enough — an employee’s email account was compromised.  In this case, the access was used to send out spam. Somehow, however, in the process of sending breach notifications, there was a mail merge…

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PEI-Genesis, Inc. Provides Notice of Data Privacy Event

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Dissent

PHILADELPHIA, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — PEI-Genesis, Inc. (“PEI-Genesis”) recently announced an event that may have impacted the privacy of personal information relating to certain individuals and businesses. While PEI-Genesis is unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of personal information in relation to the event, PEI-Genesis provided potentially affected individuals with notice, information about the event and…

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Cyberattack: Houston-area school district investigates troubling messages sent during technology breach

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Dissent

As if Texas didn’t have enough problems already… Tierra Smith reports: Magnolia ISD is responding to a technology breach that occurred Sunday afternoon, school officials confirmed. The district said the breach of unauthorized messages included social media, text messages, emails and phone calls. Many of the alleged messages, some of which were racist and directly…

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Czech officials in Prague ‘hit by massive cyber attack’

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

EuroNews reports: Czech officials in Prague have been hit by a large-scale cyberattack, according to the city’s mayor. “There has been a massive cyber attack on public administration systems,” Zdeněk Hřib tweeted, adding that the servers had “survived” and there was little damage. An immediate outage was made on the email system to maintain security. Read…

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Someone Hacked the Website of the Attorney Representing One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Accusers

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dissent

Colin Kalmbacher reports: The website for attorney Debra Katz, of the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP, was hacked and taken offline early Saturday morning. Katz currently represents former political aide Charlotte Bennett in the investigation into alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.). The splash page for kmblegal.com simply contained the phrase “AGENT-TEST” for hours before the firm was able…

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