AP reports: More than 40 state attorneys general have announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach the Dallas-based retailer disclosed in January 2014. The breach exposed customer credit card data at 77 Neiman Marcus stores nationwide. Over a three-month period in 2013, about 370,000 Neiman Marcus credit…
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20 year-old German man, “Orbit,” has reportedly confessed to leaking politicians’ information
Kate Connolly reports: A 20-year-old man has admitted to police he was behind one of the country’s biggest data breaches in which the private details of almost 1,000 public figures were leaked. The man, who lives with his parents in the central German state of Hesse and is still in the education system, told police…
Canadian senator’s personal data leaked online in apparent Twitter hack
Rachel Gilmore and Mackenzie Gray report: Conservative Senator Linda Frum’s Twitter account was hacked Sunday night, with those responsible sharing personal information including her drivers licence and using racial slurs in their Tweets. “hi linda, can u drive us to the mall please?” read one Tweet. The Tweet then shared an image of both the…
Ca: RMOW says municipal website subject to security breach
Brandon Barrett reports: The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is reporting that its municipal website, whistler.ca, has been breached—but it assured the public that the situation has been resolved. In a release sent Friday afternoon, the RMOW said that the breach, which was first discovered Dec. 28, appears to be an attempt to redirect web…
Italian Trade Union of State Police Officers Hacked & Defaced by The Anonymous Anarchist Agency
Hacktivism is still a thing, although we may not see as much of it here in the U.S. these days. The headlines about hundreds of German politicians having their details dumped may have garnered more attention here, but there have been other ongoing campaigns that have tended to be ignored by U.S. media. One such…
Marriott says less than 383 million guests impacted by breach, not 500 million
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Marriott has updated its assessment of the impact of a massive data breach disclosed in November. On a positive note, fewer people were affected than the 500 million originally estimated: “Marriott has identified approximately 383 million records as the upper limit for the total number of guest records that were involved…