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Judge Dismisses Testing Platform Cyberattack Case Against Pearson

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Dissent

Kirsten Errick reports that a lawsuit against Pearson stemming from a 2018 breach that they were alerted to in 2019 has been tossed for lack of Article III standing: Judge John Z. Lee of the Northern District issued an opinion on Tuesday granting Pearson’s motion to dismiss regarding the data breach of its AIMSweb testing platform, which…

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NZ police terminate contract with Gravitas after breach

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Dissent

Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: Police are axing their contract with Auckland research firm Gravitas after information they sent the firm about police complainants was lost in a Nigerian hack. Assistant commissioner Jevon McSkimming announced earlier this month – without naming the company – that Gravitas had alerted Police to the data breach and had also reported it…

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Data Breach at Crypto Wallet Firm Ledger Exposes User’s Personal Info

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Dissent

Mohammad Musharraf reports: Major cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has alerted customers to a data breach it faced in June and July. In an email on July 29, the company said it was made aware of the breach on July 14 when a researcher participating in its bounty program reached out with details of a…

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Hackers stole GitHub and GitLab OAuth tokens from Git analytics firm Waydev

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Waydev, an analytics platform used by software companies, has disclosed a security breach earlier this month. The company says that hackers broke into its platform and stole GitHub and GitLab OAuth tokens from its internal database. Read more on ZDNet.

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Hiscox Hack Suit Advances as Warden Grier Loses Dismissal Bid

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Dissent

Julia Weng reports: Hiscox Insurance Co. Inc. can move forward with claims against Warden Grier LLP, which lost a bid to dismiss allegations that fault the law firm’s handling of a hack that exposed the insurer’s data. Read more on Bloomberg. As reported on DataBreaches.net in 2018, thedarkoverlord (“TDO”) had started leaking what they claimed…

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Ongoing Meow attack has nuked >1,000 databases without telling anyone why

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Dissent

In March, thousands of elastic search installations were wiped out and all that was left was a calling card, “NightLionSecurity.com.” Now there’s a new round of attacks using a “Meow” calling card as they wipe out ElasticSearch and MongoDB databases. Dan Goodin reports: More than 1,000 unsecured databases so far have been permanently deleted in…

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