There have been so many Blackbaud-related security notifications that my first thought was that one by Scholarship America would be more of the same. But it’s not. It’s another hack involving Microsoft Office 365 accounts, which has been a growing problem this year. From their press release yesterday: – Scholarship America, a nonprofit organization that manages…
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Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack of 100 million credit card applications
Devlin Barrett reports: Capital One has agreed to pay an $80 million fine to U.S. regulators over a major hacking incident last year in which authorities say about 100 million credit card applications were illegally accessed. The Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business said it has taken steps to tighten security around its…
Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has published today a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers. ZDNet, which obtained a copy of this list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA, verified its authenticity with multiple sources in the cyber-security community. Read more…
Court Approves Class Action Settlement in RE: YAHOO! Inc.
Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to resolve the claims of approximately 194 million class members in In re Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 16-MD-02752-LHK, 2020 U.S. Dist….
LifeLabs agrees to comply with privacy commissioners’ orders, but challenges release of investigation report
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…
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…