It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a breach does sound a death knell for a firm. Cat Rutter Pooley and Barney Thompson report: Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, will close at the end of March, according to a statement from the firm obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative…
Category: Of Note
Article: Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data-Breach Harms
Abstract In lawsuits about data breaches, the issue of harm has confounded courts. Harm is central to whether plaintiffs have standing to sue in federal court and whether their legal claims are viable. Plaintiffs have argued that data breaches create a risk of future injury, such as identity theft, fraud, or damaged reputations, and that…
Hacking group threatens researchers’ lives after they discover attack servers
Chris Bing reports: A hacking group commonly linked to the Iranian government threatened to kill security researchers who came across their cyber espionage operation, according to a new report. Researchers with multinational cybersecurity company Trend Micro were probing a server that appeared connected to a possible data breach in the Middle East when they received a…
UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students
WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here. Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?
Update of March 12: After this story appeared on March 9, DataBreaches.net received a call from Superintendent Bradshaw, who had been out of town when my email had arrived. This story has been updated – and corrected occasionally – to incorporate his answers. If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive…