Sean Lahman reports: Officials with the Honeoye Falls-Lima school district have acknowledged an illegal intrusion into a computer system that stores students’ grades and other personal information. A spokesperson for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said that the breach began on August 1 when “an unknown suspect was able to hack the Superintendent’s account.” It is…
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Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen in a data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Apollo, a sales engagement startup boasting a database of more than 200 million contact records, has been hacked. The YC Combinator-backed company, formerly known as ZenProspect, helps salespeople connect with prospective customers. Read more on TechCrunch.
Tesco Bank fined £16.4m after hackers siphoned £2.26m from customers in 2016
John McCarthy reports: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Tesco Bank for “failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting” its current account holders. The ruling comes almost two years after the company was hit with a cyber attack that saw money stolen from an estimated 20,000 customers. Tesco Bank has been…
Facebook may face $1.63 billion EU fine for breach
Sam Schechner reports: A European Union privacy watchdog could fine Facebook Inc. as much as $1.63 billion for a data breach announced Friday in which hackers compromised the accounts of more than 50 million users, if regulators find the company violated the bloc’s strict new privacy law. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, which is Facebook’s lead…
2 men arrested in Oklahoma, suspected in $14 million cryptocurrency theft, hacking of California company
Bill Miston reports on quick work by law enforcement: Two men arrested in Oklahoma City this week are suspected of hacking and stealing millions of dollars from a California-based cryptocurrency company. Fletcher Robert Childers, 23, and Joseph Harris, 21, both of Missouri, were arrested by Oklahoma City Police at a west side hotel Monday. According…
Facebook says it detected security breach after traffic spike
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unusual traffic spike is what alerted Facebook engineers that something might be wrong, and it was an investigation into this heightened activity that led engineers to discover a massive security breach this week. Facebook confirmed the hack earlier today, in a press release. It said hackers stole access tokens for roughly…