UPDATE: The data weren’t stolen, but leaked. See this report. Original report: The home page of their web site says, “We keep your information private,” but Heritage Foundation has seemingly joined the ranks of those who failed to keep private information private. Tim Starks reports that the think tank had a data breach this week in which…
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Settlement reached in ex-Sony employees’ lawsuit over data breach – lawyers
We won’t have any details until mid-October, but AP reports that lawyers for former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees who sued SPE over a data breach have reached a settlement with their former employer.
WV: Hacker claiming to be part of Islamic State hacks Wayne County Board of Education website, redirects visitors to site promoting terrorism
The State Journal reports: Someone claiming to be part of the Islamic State hacked the Wayne County Board of Education’s website in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, authorities report. West Virginia State Police Lt. Michael Baylous said the hack redirected internet users trying to access the board’s site to “another site which promotes…
Meanwhile, back at the OPM breach….
Victims of the breach still have not been notified. OPM will start sending postal laters “later this month.” The government will spend $133 million on identity theft protection services. With options, it could go up to $330 million. ID Experts (Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC) got the gig to provide the service, which will provide…
MX: Grupo Financiero Banorte Fined $2m for Failure to Notify Customers of Security Breach (updated)
Liisa M. Thomas and Zachary L. Sorman of Winston Strawn write: Mexico’s National Transparency, Information Access, and Data Protection Institute (INAI) recently announced an impending fine of almost $2 million USD to be levied against Grupo Financiero Banorte, the third largest bank in Mexico. According to a statement by an INAI official, the bank failed…
Former IT Manager at Smart Online Inc. Pleads Guilty to Sending Damaging Computer Code to Former Company’s Servers
A former information technology manager pleaded guilty yesterday to sending damaging computer code to servers at his former employer, a software company. Nikhil Nilesh Shah, 33, of Union, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers II of the Eastern District of North Carolina, to one felony count of causing the transmission of…