In the wake of its massive data breach, Utah health officials are doing something I don’t recall ever seeing before – they’re taking breach support on the road to reach out to those affected. Kirsten Stewart reports: Health officials are touring the state, looking to provide one-on-one help to the nearly 800,000 Utahns swept up…
Category: Of Note
Hackers post 450K credentials apparently pilfered from Yahoo (update1)
Steven Musil reports: Yahoo appears to have been the victim of a security breach that yielded more than hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text. The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer’s network. The…
Stratfor to settle class action suit over hack
Basil Katz reports: The global security analysis company Strategic Forecasting Inc will settle a class action lawsuit brought by one of its customers over a crippling attack by hackers who stole data of clients including Henry Kissinger, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip on New York’s Long Island earlier this…
AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy
Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Woo hoo. I had such a headache trying to sort out Wyndham’s breaches (see previous blog entries on Wyndham) and was concerned that at least one state had removed their notification from public view on the state’s web site because Wyndham had asked that it be treated as confidential. Now it seems the FTC has…
FTC Charges EPN and Franklin’s Budget Car Sales Exposed Sensitive Information on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks, Putting Thousands of Consumers at Risk
The FTC has charged two businesses [complaint 1 | complaint 2] with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer to peer file-sharing software to be installed on their corporate computer systems. Settlements with the debt collection business and auto dealer will bar misrepresentations about their privacy, security, confidentiality, and integrity of…