Christina Davis reports on a class action suit filed against Delta Airlines where the main complaint appears to be that customers were first notified of the hack until six months after it occurred. […] According to the Delta class action lawsuit, the third party running the online chat room knew of the data breach for…
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Bitcoin tumbles as hackers hit South Korean exchange Coinrail
Cynthia Kim reports: South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail said it was hacked over the weekend, sparking a steep fall in bitcoin amid renewed concerns about security at virtual currency exchanges as global policy makers struggled to regulate trading in the digital asset. Read more on Reuters.
UK: Bible Society fined £100,000 by ICO after security failings put 417,000 supporters’ personal data at risk
The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a dharma variant ransomware attack in 2016. Between November and December 2016, the intruders used a brute force attack and exploited remote access that had been secured…
California man convicted of hacking Embarcadero Media in 2015
SAN JOSE – A federal jury returned a verdict yesterday against Ross Colby, finding him guilty of three counts of computer intrusion, one count of attempting to damage a protected computer, and one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special…
Atlanta officials reveal worsening effects of cyber attack
Reuter reports that the March 22 ransomware attack on Atlanta was even worse than they had let on. More than a third of the 424 software programs used by the city have been thrown offline or partially disabled in the incident, Atlanta Information Management head Daphne Rackley said. Nearly 30 percent of the affected applications…
Elmcroft Senior Living notifies residents and family members of hack
Elmcroft Senior Living is notifying an unspecified number of residents of a hacking incident that occurred on May 10 and that was discovered on May 12. According to a template of their notification letter submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, the May 10 hack included files containing personal information about residents or their family…