Ryan J. Reilly reports: Eleven individuals charged with helping overwhelm PayPal’s website in 2010 have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors that could potentially allow them to avoid a felony conviction. Under the terms of the deal, 11 defendants in what is known as the “PayPal 14” case pleaded guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges…
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Granite State College notifying employees after they were successfully phished
Granite State College in New Hampshire is notifying three New Hampshire residents because an employee fell for a phishing scheme and some employee information, including compensation, was sent to a gmail account. You can read their notification here.
Bloomberg Names Compliance Chief After Client Data Breach
Catherine Dunn reports: Bloomberg LP is looking to repair the ongoing fallout over a controversial breach of client data, and the financial information company is adding a new compliance officer to help. Bloomberg executive Steve Ross will now lead the company’s client data compliance office as Bloomberg continues to field questions over the division between its newsgathering operation and its core…
Update: Biometric information of 14 lakh Aadhar applicants goes missing
So it seems it may not be 300,000 biometric national ID records lost, but 1.4 million….
Shocking! Maharashtra admits it lost Aadhaar data of three lakh people
Data loss, but no seemingly big risk of data misuse: Maharashtra government has lost data of about three lakh people collected under the controversial Aadhaar scheme, mostly from Mumbai who enrolled into the number scheme. According to a report in the Times of India, the data containing permanent account number (PAN) and biometric information was lost…
St. Scholastica hack sheds light on Macalester IT security
Emma WestRasmus reports: “What was the name of your first pet? What’s your favorite color? What’s your mother’s maiden name?” We all know the drill. Whenever we start a new account we are prompted for answers to challenge questions that will surely be easy to remember. But for more than two dozen students at the…