Justin Katz reports: A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the National Security Agency to account for its part in the five-year-old breach of Juniper Networks, following a congressional investigation of the company last year. “The American people have a right to know why NSA did not act after the Juniper hack to protect…
Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to US court system
MaryClaire Dale of AP reports: Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive documents and hand-deliver…
Data of 300,000 customers leaked in São Paulo
Sofia Mandelert, Thamilla Talarico, Nuria López and Renato Gomes Malafaia of Daniel Law write: Following procedures contained in the LGPD (Brazil’s new data protection law), the international company Enel, with operations in Brazil, has started contacting its customers in relation to a data breach affecting the data of at least 300 thousand clients in the…
Court Holds Data Breach Notice Disclosing Potential Cyberattack Did Not Establish Plaintiffs’ Standing in Privacy Litigation
Christina Lamoureux of Squire Patton Boggs writes: While many federal courts have weighed in on the issue of what suffices for Article III standing in the context of a data breach litigation, not all state courts have. Last week, the Superior Court of Delaware found that a group of plaintiffs who received a notice that their personal…
CA: Serious Prison Time for Hackers Behind Wolf & Associates Breach
Tyler Hayden reports: A pair of habitual offenders behind one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony counts that will send them to prison for a combined 33 years. San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen, 37, and Nicole Milan, 31, admitted to hacking a computer network…
Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords
Barry Collins reports: British Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, failed to properly secure the passwords on its website, prompting a hack on its website that has resulted in the theft of members’ personal data. Eugene Hopkinson, a former director and technology officer at British Mensa, stood down this week, claiming that the…