Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A college student who stole more than $5 million in cryptocurrency by hijacking the phone numbers of around 40 victims pleaded guilty and accepted a plea deal of 10 years in prison, Motherboard has learned. Joel Ortiz accepted the plea deal last week, Erin West, the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara…
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Vale é hackeada e documentos mostram como empresa lida com acidentes (Vale is hacked; documents show how company handles accidents)
The following is a Google translation of a news report by Felipe Payao: The Brazilian multinational mining company Vale was invaded and supposedly confidential internal documents were withdrawn and leaked by invaders. Hackers would have taken advantage of an open software toolbox for team collaboration to retrieve minutes and extract security incidents and incidents around the…
Dutch DPA Publishes 2018 Report on Data Breach Statistics
On January 29, 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, the “Dutch DPA”) published a report (in Dutch) on the personal data breach notifications received in 2018 (the “Report”). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) requires data controllers to notify a personal data breach to the competent Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) within…
Judge Denies Yahoo Privacy Data Breach Settlement
Matthew Renda reports: A federal judge denied approval of a settlement in the Yahoo data breach class action on Monday, saying Yahoo’s refusal to disclose the total amount to be paid out to those affected by the largest data breach in history renders it insufficient. “The proposed notice does not disclose the costs of credit…
Data of 14,200 Singapore patients with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here
Chang AI-Lien reports: Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28). Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 onward before being…
Japanese government plans to hack into citizens’ IoT devices
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Japanese government approveda law amendment on Friday that will allow government workers to hack into people’s Internet of Things devices as part of an unprecedented survey of insecure IoT devices. The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision…