Teresa Carson reports: The Centennial School District has not pressed charges against two unnamed students who hacked into the districts computers in January and got access to the personal information of “a couple of hundred” students and former students. Gresham Police officer Ben Costigan said the district declined to press charges and handled the matter…
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Binance Hacker Bounty: $250,000 for info leading to arrest of those involved in March 7 hacking attempt
From Binance: Fellow Binancians, To ensure a safe crypto community, we can’t simply play defense. We need to actively prevent any instances of hacking before they occur, as well as follow through after-the-fact. Even though the hacking attempt against Binance on March 7th was not successful, it was clear it was a large-scale, organized effort….
SuperValu Data Breach Claim Nixed, Court Sees No Consumer Harm
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Grocery store chains SuperValu Inc. and New Albertson’s Inc. again dodged class claims over a 2014 data breach that impacted over 1,000 stores, after a federal court said hacked payment card data didn’t inflict enough direct harm to sustain a lawsuit. Judge Ann D. Montgomery of the U.S. District Court for…
Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?
Update of March 12: After this story appeared on March 9, DataBreaches.net received a call from Superintendent Bradshaw, who had been out of town when my email had arrived. This story has been updated – and corrected occasionally – to incorporate his answers. If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive…
Ca: JJ Meds was attacked today
JJ Meds is a medical marijuana delivery service in Canada. They seem to have received an extortion demand, as they explained on the CanadianMOM forum (“MOM” refers to Mail Order Marijuana, not that lovely woman who made you peanut butter and jelly sandwiches): Hi everyone, we wanted to share with the community what has happened.Drama: Today…
Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Claims Against Zappos
In January, 2012, Zappos announced that they were notifying more than 24 million consumers to change their passwords following a hack. In the months that followed, a to-be-predicted lawsuit was filed, and state attorneys general started investigating. Eventually, Zappos settled with states, and the class-action lawsuit was dismissed in 2015. Whew, right? Not so fast, though. Ross Todd…