From the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, this press release below. This is the second time in the past few months where we have seen an entity really fight an order to release a forensics report on a breach. In the U.S., we saw a court order Capital One in…
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TX: Sheldon ISD notifies current and former staff and students of network breach (UPDATED)
Sheldon ISD in Houston, Texas posted a notification on July 24 concerning a cyberattack: Sheldon Independent School District (“Sheldon” or “we”) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of its students. This commitment extends to notifying our former students if we believe the security or privacy of their information may have been compromised. Sheldon…
Tampa teen arrested in hack of Twitter accounts of Obama, Bill Gates and others (Updated with DOJ Press Release)
Josh Fiallo and Peter Talbot report: A 17-year-old Tampa man was arrested Friday morning after the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice discovered he was behind an extensive Twitter hack, which temporarily gave him access to the accounts of Bill Gates, Barack Obama and many others. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested…
Some potential victims of PaperlessPay breach are first finding out about the breach now
At the end of April, this site reported a breach at PaperlessPay that put its clients’ employees at risk of tax refund fraud and identity theft. As reported at the time, PaperlessPay had been contacted by Homeland Security on February 19 to alert them that someone was offering access to their clients’ data for sale…
WV: Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center notifies residents and employees of breach first discovered in February 2019
I know some people may think I’m being too harsh, but really — almost 1.5 years from detection to notifications to people of a breach? Their response in terms of preventing more incidents seems reasonable, but the gap to figure out that notification was needed and then whom to notify seems too long. What will…
Judge Dismisses Testing Platform Cyberattack Case Against Pearson
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…