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Uber: We had “no justification” for covering up data breach

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar reports: Uber’s top security official testified at Capitol Hill on Tuesday, saying that Uber had “no justification” for not coming clean sooner when it had been hit by a massive data breach in 2016. In written testimony, John Flynn, Uber’s chief information security officer, told a Senate committee that “it was wrong not…

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Pittsburg employees notified after their W-2 data stolen in phishing scheme

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Dissent

CORRECTION: I picked this up incorrectly as Pittsburgh in PA. A kind reader pointed out my error. This was Pittsburg in Kansas! Corrected Post: The City of Pittsburg hasn’t disclosed how many former and current employees had their W-2 data stolen in a phishing scam on January 30, but I’m betting it’s more than a…

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Columbia University grad arrested for using key logger software

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Dissent

Robert Abel reports: A Columbia University grad student was arrested for leaving key logger malware on USB sticks left throughout the campus. Bill Liang Lin Wu, 23 was arrested Thursday after he was caught on camera leaving the credential stealing devices on a host of university computers shared by 14 professors. Wu graduated last spring…

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Malware incident discovered in May, 2017 affected 2,600 patients: Partners HealthCare System

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Dissent

Partners HealthCare System, whose hospitals include Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s, revealed today that it had discovered a malware attack in May, 2017 that may have exposed 2,600 patients’ information. They learned of the problem on May 8, but because data was mixed in with code, numbers, other data, and unformatted, it took them quite…

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12 UNC employees’ personal information comprised in cybersecurity breach

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Dissent

Tommy Wood reports: The private information of 12 University of Northern Colorado employees was compromised last week after an “unknown person or group” accessed their profiles on Ursa, UNC’s online portal, according to a release from the university. Whoever is responsible for the breach tried to log in to the employees’ Ursa accounts, then used…

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Trump’s CFPB Chief Pulls Back on Equifax Data Breach Probe: Report

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Dissent

Patrick Rucker reports: Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc. failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, according to people familiar with the matter. Equifax (EFX.N) said in September that hackers stole personal data it had collected on some…

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