Gabrielle Russon has an update on breach litigation involving the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five people whose Social Security numbers were compromised in the school’s data hack last year. In February 2016, UCF revealed there was a security breach involving 63,000 current and…
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U.S. hackers could have framed Russia in election hack: Putin tells NBC
Reuters reports: American hackers could have planted false evidence that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by NBC News on Saturday. U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking the Democratic Party to sway the vote in favor of Donald…
Hackers Vow to Release Apparent Trove of U.A.E. Ambassador’s Emails
Kevin Poulsen reports: A hacker group calling itself “GlobalLeaks” has begun distributing hacked emails stolen from the inbox of Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States and a man credited for cementing America’s close alliance with the U.A.E. in the war on ISIS. The hackers reached out to The Daily…
Hackers in South Korea arrested after breach of hotel app
John Culbertson reports: Hackers suspected of breaching a popular South Korean mobile app and stealing the personal data of more than 990,000 users have been arrested, local police say. South Korean television network YTN reported Thursday the hotel and guesthouse reservation app “Good Choice” was hacked in March by a group that operated in the…
Customer data stolen as S.F. cybersecurity firm hacked, Stanford medical school reportedly a client
Ethan Baron reports: Cybersecurity is big business in the Bay Area, with new firms popping up virtually every week to meet the global demand for data protection in a world teeming with sophisticated hackers. Now one of the region’s more established firms has been hacked, with customer data stolen, according to a company blog post…
OneLogin: Breach Exposed Ability to Decrypt Data
Brian Krebs reports: OneLogin, an online service that lets users manage logins to sites and apps from a single platform, says it has suffered a security breach in which customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data. Headquartered in San Francisco, OneLogin provides single sign-on and identity management for cloud-base applications. OneLogin…