Educational Enrichment Systems, Inc. (“EES”) partners with school districts and agencies to provide preschool services to children. THis week, they issued a press release about a data security incident. As seen on their website: Educational Enrichment Systems, Inc. (“EES”) is providing notice of a data privacy event that may have affected certain personal information. The…
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Data Breach at Mitsubishi Electric Caused by Zero-Day Vulnerability in Antivirus Software
Scott Ikeda writes: When antivirus software is installed and activated, there is usually an assumption that the system is automatically safer. Antivirus software can be penetrated just like any other software can, however, as a 2019 data breach at Japanese electronics giant Mitsubishi Electric demonstrates. Mitsubishi Electric did not disclose what software they were using…
Salesforce Data Breach Suit Cites California Privacy Law
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Salesforce.com Inc. and a children’s clothing company face data-breach allegations in a federal court lawsuit that is among the first to cite California’s landmark privacy law since it took effect Jan. 1. Salesforce and Hanna Andersson failed to protect user data, safeguard platforms or provide cybersecurity warnings, alleges the complaint filed…
Ashley Madison cyber-breach: 5 years later, users are being targeted with ‘sextortion’ scams
Kate Fazzini reports: Scammers have found a new way to wring money out of unsuspecting victims of the 2015 breach of the Ashley Madison affair-dating website, by using their stolen credentials in an amped-up version of the common “sextortion” scam. Researchers at email security company Vade Secure found the new scam earlier this year, when…
United Healthcare reports breach affecting undisclosed number of SC customers
Mary Katherine Wildeman reports: United Healthcare customers in South Carolina may have seen their private information exposed in a data breach that happened last year, the company said in a disclosure Friday. First and last names, health plan information and private medical claims data all could have been compromised, United said. The health insurance company…
Japanese company NEC confirms 2016 security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics and IT company NEC Corp disclosed a security breach today that took place more than three years ago, in December 2016. The company’s admission comes after reports in Japanese media [1, 2, 3] that the company might have suffered a security breach but decided to keep it quiet. Read more on ZDNet.