Jon Brodkin reports: One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta sued Bright Data in January 2023, making claims of breach of contract and tortious interference with contract. Bright Data is an Israeli company that collects data…
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Owner of BreachedForums sentenced to time served plus 20 years supervised release with special conditions
Just days after prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia recommended that Conor Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” be sentenced to at least 15 years in prison, District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema sentenced him to time served and supervised release. As DataBreaches previously reported, Fitzpatrick, the owner of the first BreachedForums site, pleaded guilty in July to…
Four-in-ten employees sacked over email security breaches as firms tackle “truly staggering” increase in attacks
Emma Woollacott reports: Nearly half of workers responsible for email security breaches over the last year have been sacked, according to new search, as cyber leaders begin taking a tougher stance amid a surge in attacks. Research from cyber security firm Egress found that 94% of organizations globally have experienced a serious email security incident…
Follow-on extortion campaign: confirmation of some findings by Arctic Wolf
Bill Toulas of Bleeping Computer reported on a recent Arctic Wolf Labs investigation that caught my eye. Arctic Wolf investigated two cases where victims of the Royal and Akira ransomware gangs who had paid ransoms were subsequently approached by threat actors offering to help them by hacking into the server of the ransomware gangs to…
Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data
December 27 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $300,000 from The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited their website. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that the hospital used advertising tools on its website that collected and shared private and personal…
Fairfax Co. concludes investigation into student data breach
Scott Gelman reports: An investigation into how Fairfax County Public Schools accidentally shared other students’ private information with a parent during a fall meeting has concluded, Superintendent Michelle Reid said in a letter to families Thursday. The external review, conducted by the law firm Woods Rogers, found that the data breach occurred because the parent…