There’s an update to the University of Central Florida breach that was first disclosed in early 2016. The Orlando Sentinel reports: The University of Central Florida has agreed to spend an additional $1 million annually to protect students’ and employees’ personal information, according to a legal settlement reached with former students in the wake of…
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Thornhill man charged with selling 3 billion pieces of stolen digital info in LeakedSource.com case making court appearance Monday
Robert Cribb reports: A Thornhill man is scheduled to appear in court Monday charged with selling three billion pieces of stolen digital information belonging to people around the world — including online user names and passwords — through the infamous website Leakedsource.com. Jordan Evan Bloom, 27, is facing rare Canadian Criminal Code charges including trafficking…
Medical records of almost 180,000 patients handed to US firms connected to tobacco industry by British health officials, Telegraph probe reveals
Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of British cancer victims have been handed to a controversial American firm working for one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, the Daily Telegraph can reveal. The data covering almost 180,000 patients – every case of lung cancer diagnosed in England over a four year period – was given by…
FBI Is Disrupting 10X Fewer Cyber Crime Rings Than In 2015
Joseph Marks reports: FBI agents took down or disrupted only about one-tenth as many cyber criminal operations during the 2017 fiscal year as they did three years earlier, according to annual reports. The number of cyber crime operations that FBI agents dismantled or disrupted fell from nearly 2,500 in fiscal year 2014, the first year…
Inside Uber’s $100,000 Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout
Nicole Perlroth and Mike Isaac report: “Hello Joe,” read the November 2016 email from someone identifying himself as “John Doughs.” “I have found a major vulnerability in Uber.” The email appeared to be no different from other messages that Joe Sullivan, Uber’s chief security officer, and his team routinely received through the company’s “bug bounty”…
The Coca-Cola Breach and Who’s on Hook for Security of Employee Data
Chris Opfer writes: Six years after Shane Enslin left his repairman job at a Coca-Cola distribution plant in Pennsylvania, the company told him that his Social Security number and other personal information might have fallen into the wrong hands. A few months later, a declined credit card upended his family vacation. Then came a third…