Daniel R. Stoller reports: Yahoo! Inc. will be defending multidistrict consumer data breach claims in its home territory in the federal trial court based in Silicon Valley ( In re Yahoo Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig. , J.P.M.L., No. No, 2752, transfer order 12/7/16 ). The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned Judge Lucy Koh of…
Category: Hack
Hacker Claims Theft of Thousands of Passport Numbers from Russian Consulate
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of passport numbers and other pieces of personal information from the website of a Russian consular department. The hacker, who calls himself Kapustkiy, plans to publish around a thousand records out of the 30,000 or so he allegedly obtained. The apparent target was ambru.nl, the…
The man hacking India’s rich and powerful talks motives, music, drugs and next targets
Max Bearak reports: Somewhere in India, a young man is sitting in a room, parked in front of his computer, smoking copious amounts of marijuana and causing great embarrassment to some of the country’s biggest movers and shakers. He and a group of others — who he claims number in the “higher single digits” and are based around…
Quest Diagnostics notifying 34,000 patients after hacker acquired PHI
Quest Diagnostics is notifying approximately 34,000 patients after their MyQuest patient was hacked and PHI was accessed and obtained. Quest reports that they became aware of the breach on November 28, and that the patient data included name, date of birth, lab results, and, in some instances, telephone numbers. The affected information did not include Social Security numbers, credit…
BMC to send pathology lab show-cause notice over data leak
Mumbai: After data from a privately-run pathology lab, Health Care Solutions, Parel, leaked around six months ago and has been in circulation on social media, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided to issue a show-cause notice to the lab for being ‘irresponsible’. The leaked data contained the test results of patients, along with vital…
Queensland U. of Technology hires IT firm to investigate claims student data was improperly accessed in 18C case
Hedley Thomas reports: An independent new probe will investigate whether unlawful privacy breaches at the Queensland University of Technology led to the personal data of students in a racial hatred case being obtained by the lawyers for their accuser during her $250,000 damages claim. QUT has asked external IT experts to examine computer and back-up…