AFP reports: WikiLeaks on Thursday released 276,394 new documents from the hack of Sony Pictures in what could be a further embarrassment for the Japanese media and electronics group. The new release adds to more than 30,000 documents published by WikiLeaks in April. Both groups of documents can be searched on the WikiLeaks page. Read…
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Sony Fails to Shake Data Breach Suit
Marisa Kendall reports: A federal judge ruled Monday that employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. whose personal information was exposed in last year’s data breach have standing to sue even if they can’t prove that information was used by criminals. It’s often difficult for lawyers to successfully show collective harm in data breach class actions…
The OPM Hack and the New DOD Law of War Manual
Kristen Eichensehr writes: Last Friday was a big day in cybersecurity news. OPM announced that, in addition to the compromise of the personnel information of federal employees revealed on June 4, Chinese hackers also breached a database containing millions of security clearance forms. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Potomac, the Department of Defense…
BAE Systems first notifying employees of extranet site network attack in 2014
On June 4, BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced a network attack on an extranet site in 2014. Due to the nature and scope of the attack, they provided a data set to the Pentagon’s Damage Assessment Management Office (DAMO), who subsequently…
Arizona state agency website hacked to display Muslim message
On June 10, Mary Jo Pitzl reported: A group that calls itself the Middle East Cyber Army hacked into the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures website over the weekend, the second known attack on an Arizona site. MECA also hacked into the site of Art and Sol, a Scottsdale-based group that produces children’s musical…
None of us is safe: Major cybersecurity company hacked
Guess what: Even the best security companies can be hacked. That’s what Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said Wednesday when it announced its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. Read more on CNET.