Hmm. This one could result in big numbers. A notification from Title Nine about Annex Cloud. Annex Cloud is a service provider that you may never have heard of but may have used many times. The notification explains: Annex Cloud provides a service that enables individuals to use their user name and password from social media…
Category: Of Note
UK: Six month prison sentence for motor industry employee in first ICO Computer Misuse Act prosecution
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A motor industry employee has been sentenced to six months in prison in the first prosecution to be brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under legislation which carries a potential prison sentence. Mustafa Kasim, who worked for accident repair firm Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS), accessed thousands of customer…
Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team
Cory Doctorow reports: Hacking Team (previously) was an Italian company that developed cyberweapons that it sold to oppressive government around the world, to be used against their own citizens to monitor and suppress political oppositions; in 2015, a hacker calling themselves “Phineas Fisher” hacked and dumped hundreds of gigabytes’ worth of internal Hacking Team data,…
Jobscience breach impacted multiple health systems’ job applicants (UPDATED)
This week, Huntsville Hospital in Alabama disclosed a breach involving their vendor, Jobscience. The breach affected those applying for employment with the hospital. But Huntsville wasn’t the only hospital affected by Jobscience’s breach. In October, and flying under most media radar, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Florida disclosed that they had been contacted by Jobscience on…
Facebook May Face 100M Euro Lawsuit From France’s Internet Society Over Privacy Breach
Daniel R. Stoller reports: A French nongovernmental organization wants Facebook Inc. to pay 100 million euros ($113 million) and fix any problems stemming from recent data security incidents and privacy breaches. The Internet Society of France, a public interest group that advocates for online rights, sent a formal notice to Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram…
They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up.
Benjamin Herold has a great piece on EdWeek about two teens in Michigan who have been charged criminally with hacking. It is a case that Doug Levin previously brought to the public’s attention in the context of a question as to whether schools are failing to deal effectively with young curious minds. This particular case…