Selena Larson reports: Instagram is alerting high-profile users that someone could have accessed their phone number and email address through a bug in its software. In an email sent to verified users on Wednesday, Instagram said that no account passwords were accessed, and the bug has been fixed. It is reminding those people to use…
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AA Password Reset Email Causes Data Breach Panic
This is almost a comedy of errors…. Phil Muncaster reports: British motoring association the AA caused panic among its members on Monday when it accidentally sent out a password reset email, leading many to presume incorrectly that the firm had been breached. The problem was made worse when the Automobile Association’s web infrastructure apparently buckled as…
Police Have Arrested a Suspect in a Massive ‘Internet of Things’ Attack
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: European police suspect a 29-year-old man of keeping one million people offline. They might have found the person behind the notorious hacker known as BestBuy. At the end of last year, hackers took over hundreds of thousands of home routers using a variant of the infamous Internet of Things malware known as Mirai. Then they rented out…
Information Breach Reported By Hillsborough County
Sherri Lonon reports: Hillsborough County Aging Services has notified about 650 clients about a possible breach of protected health information that occurred in 2011. The potential breach was brought to the county’s attention in December 2016 by a former employee. According to the county, the possible breach occurred in March 2011 when an employee of…
Telus releases Hamilton woman’s personal information to her stalker
Adam Carter reports on a small-N breach that reminds us all how horrifying the consequences of a privacy breach can be: A Hamilton woman says Telus violated her privacy and put her and her family in grave danger by allowing her stalker to access her phone account without her consent. Ellie, whose name has been…
D-Link fights back against ‘baseless’ data security lawsuit
Corinne Reichert reports: Cause of Action Institute has announced that it will be defending D-Link against the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s “unwarranted and baseless” lawsuit claiming that the technology company put thousands of customers at risk of unauthorised access by failing to secure its IP cameras and routers. The FTC should not be…