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Cyber Criminals Hone Attacks Against Schools

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Dissent

Kathleen E. Dion of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI recently issued a Flash alert warning higher education institutions, k-12 schools, and seminaries about increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting the education industry.  According to the warning, “[s]ince March 2020, the FBI has become aware of PYSA ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign government entities,…

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Chinese Hackers Selling Intimate Stolen Camera Footage

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Dissent

Becky Bracken reports: Stolen videos captured by tens of thousands of security cameras at private properties throughout China are now for sale across social media, marketed as sex tapes. That’s according to the South China Morning Post, which reported that the cost of each “tape” varies, depending on how salacious the material is — nudity…

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IE: Donnelly is accused of data breach

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Dissent

Maeve Sheehan reports: Lawyers acting for women caught up in the CervicalCheck debacle have reported Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to the Data Protection Commission. Mr Donnelly has been accused of an alleged data breach and “unauthorised” use of the women’s home addresses by writing to them directly about the CervicalCheck tribunal. Stephen Donnelly wrote to…

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Phone numbers for 533 million Facebook users leaked on hacking forum

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A threat actor has published the phone numbers and account details for an estimated 533 million Facebook users —about a fifth of the entire social network’s user pool— on a publicly accessible cybercrime forum. According to samples reviewed by The Record today, the leaked data includes information that users posted on their profiles. Information…

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“Anonymous” tries to get this site’s post on MobiKwik censored

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Dissent

On March 30, DataBreaches.net posted an update to a controversial data breach that MobiKwik denies (previous coverage can be found here). The controversy subsequently escalated on Twitter when people started complaining that they had found their data in the leaked database and that it corresponded to what they had on file with MobiKwik. In addition…

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A first in Canada: Class action over loss of personal information dismissed on the merits

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Dissent

Stéphane Pitre, Anne Merminod, Alexandra Hebert, Alexis Leray of BLG Law Firm write: On March 26, 2021, the Superior Court rendered a landmark judgment dealing with the loss of personal information, Lamoureux c. OCRCVM, 2021 QCCS 1093. Madam Justice Florence Lucas, J.C.S. dismisses the class action filed by the plaintiff, Danny Lamoureux in its entirety in…

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