Michael Perrault reports: Where does stolen data go after a breach? Silicon Valley-based data protection company Bitglass conducted an experiment showing that a single stolen document, with multiple data, traveled to 22 countries, was viewed 1,081 times and was downloaded 47 times over a dozen days. Some activity was connected to crime syndicates in Nigeria…
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Auburn University notifying over 360,000 current and former students of breach
Oops. Auburn University discovered that students’ personal information – names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and students’ academic information – was exposed on the Internet between September 1, 2014 and March 2, 2015 when they discovered the problem. No financial information, bank account or payment card information was involved. While the university…
FL: Convicted felon hijacks charity – and the state can’t stop it?
Adam Walser reports that a former volunteer at the non-profit Kingdom Purpose, Teach One Reach One after-school program was allegedly able to hijack ownership of the charity by altering public information on the Florida Department of State sunbiz.org website. And there’s little the Department of State says they can do about it. The former volunteer, Sabrina Miller-White, who had been convicted on…
FTC and Wyndham Present Arguments on Whether FTC has Declared Unreasonable Cybersecurity Practices Unfair
Katherine Gasztonyi writes: On Friday, March 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission and Wyndham Worldwide Corp. filed supplemental briefing in the Third Circuit regarding whether the FTC had made an adjudicative decision that the FTC Act prohibits unreasonable cybersecurity practices and, if not, whether a federal court could hear a case charging a violation of the FTC Act…
5 Biggest Hosting Companies hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Swati Khandelwal reports: Once again, Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has gain media attention by compromising a number of popular web hosting brands of one of the leading web-hosting companies Endurance International Group INC that manages over 60 different hosting brands. SEA, a pro-hacker group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is famous for hacking…
Florida Department of State exposes non-confidential voter information (updated)
Update: The Florida Department of State issued a statement on March 31 confirming the breach. That statement appears elsewhere on this site. Under the language of their statute, addresses are not considered “confidential” information, and the state has asked DataBreaches.net to make clear that this did not involve confidential information, as “confidential” is defined by…