Amy Luft reports: Quebec provincial police have arrested three Montreal men they say are behind a widespread identity theft operation that stole personal information from scores of Quebec teachers and education workers. The three men were arrested on Friday: Frédéric Lapointe, 41, Rath Pak, 41, and Jimmy Saintelien, 39. In February, Quebec’s education minister revealed…
Category: Of Note
U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh Anti-Hacking Law’s Limits on Access
Andrea Vittorio reports: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral argument Nov. 30 over the scope of an anti-hacking law in a case that has implications for cybersecurity research, and other situations where computer access is in question. The case, Van Buren v. United States, involves whether people who misuse their authorized access can be…
Home Depot settles multi-state lawsuit stemming from 2014 breach
A number of states have issued press releases about how their state was part of a newly announced settlement stemming from a Home Depot breach in 2014. That breach has been covered quite a bit on this site already, as it resulted in a lot of litigation involving card issuers, credit unions, banks, and of…
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Brian Krebs reports: Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. […] This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency…
Hanna Andersson, Salesforce ink deal to settle CCPA data breach class action
Sara Merken reports: Hanna Andersson LLC and Salesforce.com Inc have reached a proposed agreement with plaintiffs to resolve class claims related to a 2019 data breach, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement. The litigation, composed of two consolidated cases against the children’s apparel retailer and cloud technology services provider, was one…
Lazada denies being behind data leak
The Bangkok Post reports: Online retail operator, Lazada, insisted on Friday it was not responsible for leaking any online shoppers’ data following a report claiming that about 13 million records from Lazada Thailand were being offered for sale on an underground trading forum. The company said it had conducted an initial investigation and found the…