Gabe Friedman reports: A federal judge on Friday unveiled a long sealed proposed class-action complaint that accused the law firm, Johnson & Bell, of failing to take adequate steps to protect the data on its servers. The case is currently proceeding in confidential arbitration and the complaint was filed in April by the plaintiff’s firm Edelson P.C. on behalf…
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Georgia Accuses Homeland Security Of Attempting To Hack State’s Election Database
From the we-re-from-the-government-and-we’re-here-to-help-you dept., Tyler Durden reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is anxiously wondering, as are we, why someone with a Department Of Homeland Security IP address would try to hack into his State’s voter registration database. Even though DHS offered cyber security help to states prior to the election, the Wall Street Journal notes…
Online mall Interpark fined 4.5 bln won ($3.8 million) over data leak
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s telecommunications watchdog said Tuesday that it has decided to impose a fine of 4.5 billion won (US$3.8 million) on major online shopping mall Interpark Corp. for its failure to protect information of customers in a hacking attack blamed on North Korea. The Korea Communications Commission made the decision at its…
Experian denies that database up for sale on dark web is their data
It was only last week that Experian released a white paper on what it sees as data breach risks for 2017. Perhaps ironically, then, it was only days later when a dark web vendor claimed to have Experian’s database for sale. HackRead reported on “DoubleFlag’s” listing: The hacker claims he has access to the Experian database which contains…
Russian central bank says bank account hacked in $45 million cyber heist
Andrei Ostroukh reports Hackers broke into accounts at the Russian central bank earlier this year by faking a client’s credentials and attempted to steal $45 million, the bank said in a report released on Friday. The bank said it managed to recover some of that amount—$26 million—but it did not say if that meant the…
‘Avalanche’ network dismantled in international cyber operation
From Europol, today: On 30 November 2016, after more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany) in close cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the FBI, Europol, Eurojust and global partners, dismantled an international criminal infrastructure platform known as…