Kenny Chee reports: The Tripartite Alliance Limited (TAL) has been fined $29,000 after the data of about 20,000 people was accessed by hackers last year. TAL oversees the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (Tafep) and handles employment disputes. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) said in a recent decision that TAL had…
White House Urged to Address Surge in Ransomware Attacks
Kartikay Mehrota reports: Cybersecurity experts, law enforcement agencies and governments urged the White House to root out safe havens for criminals engaging in ransomware and step up regulation of cryptocurrencies, the lifeblood of hackers, in the hopes of controlling a growing wave of attacks. These are two of 48 recommendations made by a task force…
First Horizon discloses data security breach
Paul Davis reports: First Horizon in Memphis, Tenn., disclosed that a number of online customer bank accounts were targeted by a data security breach. The $87.5 billion-asset company said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it first learned of the breach this month. Read more on Amercan Banker
DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: DigitalOcean has emailed customers warning of a data breach involving customers’ billing data, TechCrunch has learned. The cloud infrastructure giant told customers in an email on Wednesday, obtained by TechCrunch, that it has “confirmed an unauthorized exposure of details associated with the billing profile on your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the…
Il: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street
Hadar Gil-Ad reports: Hundreds of files that included personal information were thrown out from a local center for psychology and treatment of learning disabilities in Ramat Gan that was shut down after the pyschologist passed away a year and a half ago The documents of a deceased psychologist, containing private assessments and personal information on…
Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans
Brian Krebs reports: Big-three consumer credit bureau Experian just fixed a weakness with a partner website that let anyone look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by supplying their name and mailing address, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the researcher who reported the finding says…