Back in 2016-2018 when threat actors known as thedarkoverlord (“TDO”) were hacking entities and attempting to extort their victims by sending them emails with details about their family members and threats of what would happen if the victims didn’t pay up, a man in Meridian Idaho who called himself “Lifelock” or “Studmaster” was doing the…
Category: Of Note
Texas sues PowerSchool over breach compromising info of over 880,000 students, teachers
Ninfa Saavedra reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying information and protected health information of more than 880,000 Texas school-aged children and teachers, including Houston ISD schools. According to Paxton, PowerSchool’s…
Gmail’s protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false.
From Google’s blog, today, to try to counter headlines about any major security concern: We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective. Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false….
Massachusetts AG Secures $795,000 Settlement for Alleged Data Security and Breach Notification Failures by Peabody Properties Inc.
A.J. S. Dhaliwal, Mehul N. Madia, Maxwell Earp-Thomas of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton write: On August 19, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced a $795,000 settlement with a property management company for alleged violations of the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, and the Massachusetts Data Security Law and Data Security Regulations. The AG alleged that the…
EuroFins cancer screening hack far bigger than thought, agency says
DutchNews.nl reports: The scale of a data theft from a Dutch national screening programme laboratory is far greater than initially reported, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland said on Friday. Hackers may have accessed the personal and medical details of all 941,000 women who have taken part in the cervical cancer screening programme since 2017, the agency said in…
3rd Circuit Clarifies Scope of Computer Fraud Abuse Act With Employer’s Policies
Riley Brennan reports: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified this week that an employee’s purported violations of workplace computer use policies cannot be criminalized under federal law as long as there is no evidence of hacking or violations of trade secrets. On Tuesday, the federal appellate court affirmed the U.S. District Court…