Ashkan Soltani has uploaded an important ruling in FTC v. Wyndham, a case discussed many times on this blog. The short version of the ruling is that Wyndham went 0 for 3 on its challenges to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security under the FTC Act, to enforce data security in the absence of regulations that…
Category: Hack
Neiman Marcus Data Breach Said Work of Russians Who Eluded U.S.
Michael Riley reports: Hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Russian group is well known to U.S. authorities, who have indicted…
SQL Injection Leads To BigMoneyJobs.com Leak
From DataLossDB and Risk Based Security: Earlier today, a hacker identified as ProbablyOnion (who recently breached Boxee.tv) has posted data from a large job seeker website resulting in over 36,000 accounts being published online. The website BigMoneyJobs.com is a large hub for job seekers and employers looking to hire them. The breach was announced over Twitter and…
60,000 Personal Credentials Leaked From Syrian Sites
Lee J writes: Today a hacker from the European Cyber Army going by the handle @Zer0Pwn has announced a leak of data from two Syrian based websites job.sy, realestate.sy. The leak which is titled “ECA vs. Assad | Part 1″ was posted to Pastebin with a preview of some of the users’ data and a link to Sendspace. The attack is apart…
Is delaying notification for law enforcement purposes ever unreasonable?
Over on Security Bistro, Linda Musthaler discusses the recently disclosed Spec’s breach and the fact that Spec’s knew about the breach but was asked not to disclose it by law enforcement. We’ve seen this many times – delays in notification so as not to interfere with a law enforcement investigation. But should there be some…
German officials confirm 18 million emails and passwords stolen
DW reports that there’s been another large data theft reported in Germany: Another mass hacking of private data was confirmed by German officials on Thursday, this time involving 18 million email addresses and passwords. Authorities in the northwestern city of Verden discovered the trove of information, according to the city’s public prosecutor Lutz Gaebel. Unidentified…