Brian Krebs reports: The recent breaches involving the leak of personal data on millions of customers at online hookup site Adult Friend Finder and mobile spyware maker mSpy give extortionists and blackmailers plenty of ammunition with which to ply their trade. And there is some evidence that ne’er-do-wells are actively trading this data and planning to abuse it for…
Category: Of Note
North Dakota amends data breach notification law
Christin McMeley and Bryan Thompson write: On April 13 North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple signed S. 2214 into law, which amended the state’s data breach statute in an attempt to expand the reach of the state’s notification requirements and the range of businesses subject to them. As the law is currently written, North Dakota’s data breach statute…
Research group says UC Browser, owned by Alibaba, found to leak data
John Ruwitch reports: A popular mobile web browser from a company that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd paid more than $1 billion for last year leaks sensitive user data and is a privacy risk, a Canadian technology research group said on Thursday. Citizen Lab said Chinese and English-language versions of UC Browser, developed by UCWeb Inc.,…
Yemen Cyber Army data dump contains wealth of personal and government information
Lee Johnstone of cyberwarnews.info (@Cyber_War_News) has analyzed some of the massive amount of Saudi government data dumped by the Yemen Cyber Army and has kindly shared his findings with DataBreaches.net. In their statement, the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) wrote: We have gained access to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) network and have full control…
Statement by Lauri Love on the return of some of his property by NCA
Statement by Lauri Love on the return of some of his property by NCA, as posted on Gist. The BBC wanted a statement on the return of [some] property by the National Crime Agency to the Love residence. Journalists and editors have a tendency to exerpt from statements, and sometimes don’t always get the gist…
Lauri Love hacking case: NCA returns 25 of 31 seized items, but not encrypted laptop
Wow. Nic Rigby reports: A man accused of hacking US government computers who is battling for the return of property seized by police has been given back 25 of the 31 items. Lauri Love, of Suffolk, is seeking the return of devices seized by UK police. Mr Love, 30, who faces no charges in Britain,…