Devin Randall reports: Jack’d is paying out money make up for its picture leak. Earlier this year, we shared with you how a single tech expert Oliver Hough discovered that there was a large hole in Jack’d’s code. It turns out, the company did not properly secure photos and data uploaded using Amazon Web Services…
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UK: Former company director believed to have profited by more than £1.4 million after selling personal data illegally
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former company director found guilty of illegally obtaining people’s personal data and selling it to solicitors chasing personal injury claims, has been fined for breaches of data protection and issued with a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. David Cullen of Middleton Road, Manchester, was the…
Seven weeks after a crippling ransomware attack, Lake City agrees to pay almost $500,000 ransom demand
On June 11, DataBreaches.net noted a report that Lake City, Florida was struggling to recover from “triple threat ransomware.” The attack had occurred on May 10, and one month later, the city’s landline phones were still knocked out and other services were also affected, although emergency services were operating. Now, one week after another Florida…
Former employee of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Allegheny Health Network sentenced to 1 year in prison for disclosing patient files
There’s an update to a HIPAA breach case that this site has been following since 2018, when DOJ announced that Linda S. Kalina had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with six counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the health information of another individual. In March of this year, she…
Hackers steal data from telcos in espionage campaign: cyber firm
Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen report: Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber security company said, identifying links to previous Chinese cyber-espionage activities. Investigators at U.S.-Israeli cyber firm Cybereason said on Tuesday the attackers…
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach
Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White report: Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege. The company’s disclosure in September that hackers exploited several software bugs to obtain login access to accounts was tagged…