There’s an update to a previously reported case involving a former employee of Ubiquiti Networks, although as is their policy, the DOJ does not name the victim firm: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICKOLAS SHARP pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to multiple federal…
Category: U.S.
Auction Company Offers to Sell Unscrubbed Computers Back to San Benito Schools
Fernando Del Valle reports: A San Benito school district online auction sold thousands of computers and tablets, some of which contained employees’ and students’ personal data, a computer store owner said Wednesday. South Texas Auction Co.’s records show the district sold more than 2,000 computers and 1,500 tablets during a July 23 online auction, David…
FTC Enforcement Action to Bar GoodRx from Sharing Consumers’ Sensitive Health Info for Advertising
The Federal Trade Commission has taken enforcement action for the first time under its Health Breach Notification Rule against the telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc., for failing to notify consumers and others of its unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ personal health information to Facebook, Google, and other companies. In a first-of-its-kind proposed…
Skyview Networks Suffers Security Incident
Matthew Keys reports: An unauthorized person or group gained access to internal systems used by Skyview Networks this week, disrupting the delivery of the CBS World News Roundup and other programming to radio affiliates on Monday. The issue was confirmed in an email sent to Radio Ink by Steve Jones, the president and CEO of Skyview, who said…
Google Fi Customers Caught Up in T-Mobile Data Breach
Matthew Humphries reports: Google is in the process of telling Google Fi customers that their data was stolen as part of the T-Mobile breach earlier this month. On Jan. 5, a hacker breached T-Mobile’s network and stole data from 37 million customer accounts. Google Fi uses T-Mobile’s network for the majority of its connections, and it seems the…
The U.N. Committee on Human Rights asks Morocco NOT to extradite Raoult
A small and somewhat bitter update to the Sébastien Raoult case. Sébastien’s father contacted DataBreaches tonight to say that they had just received a response from the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. In response to Raoult’s appeal submitted on January 17, the committee responded by asking Morocco not to extradite Raoult while Raoult’s…