SAN FRANCISCO –Uber Technologies, Inc., has entered a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve a criminal investigation into the coverup of a significant data breach suffered by the company in 2016, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan. As part of a non-prosecution…
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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do
Brian Krebs writes: Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Research suggests identity thieves were able to…
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O’Carroll report: A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion. The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents…
Pro-Kremlin hackers Killnet hit Latvia with biggest cyberattack in its history
Oliver Moody reports: Latvia has come under the most intense wave of cyberattacks in its history, including a 12-hour onslaught on its public broadcasting centre, according to a senior Nato official. The Baltic state appears to have been targeted by pro-Kremlin hackers because of a series of assertive steps such as bringing back conscription and drawing…
Pt: Hacker targets Lisbon hotel clients
The Portugal News reports: A hacker has infiltrated the Booking account of the Marino Boutique Hotel in Lisbon, and has managed to steal almost half a million euros in false bookings. According to CNN Portugal, the hacker established direct contact with hundreds of customers between 12 and 16 June, leaving the hotel without being able…
VCU Health identifies and addresses a 16-year privacy breach
Soap operas are almost always long-running. Privacy breaches should not be, and 16 years is a very long time for a problem to go undetected. But it appears that’s what happened to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (“VCU Health”). Last month, VCU Health disclosed that they had recently learned that beginning as early as…