Katherine Donnelly and Robin Schiller report: Schools are on alert to IT security risks around online classes as a Garda investigation gets under way into how a number of men gained unauthorised access to a video lesson for second-year students. The breach, at a Co Meath school on Wednesday, was compounded when the men engaged…
ThinkMarkets Sues Former Employee for Data Theft
Arnab Shome reports: TF Global Markets (Aust) Limited, the Australian unit of forex broker ThinkMarkets, has filed a lawsuit against its former employee James Sorenson over some serious allegations of data theft and distributing them to its rival. The 31-page lawsuit filed at an Illinois court detailed that the former employee gained access to several confidential…
Cybercriminals are Bypassing Multi-factor Authentication to Access Organisation’s Cloud Services
Graham Cluley writes: The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to companies to better protect their cloud-based accounts after several recent successful attacks. According to an advisory published by CISA, an increasing number of attacks have succeeded as more employees have begun to work remotely with a variety…
Ph: Privacy Commission summons operators of website that exposed car owners’ personal data
There’s an update to a data leak situation previously noted on this site. It’s always interesting to me to see how other countries handle privacy violations or data leaks. It looks like the NPC has the authority — and uses it — to order ISPs to block access to problematic web sites that violate privacy….
Hy-Vee agrees to settle the class action lawsuit over payment card data breach
In August, 2019, Hy-Vee announced that it was investigating a payment card breach affecting customers who had used some of their fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops, and restaurants. Three days later, Brian Krebs reported: On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked…
Ca: Laurentian Data Breach Class Action Approved by Court
The following is a press release. I’ll meet you on the other side: On October 19, 2021 (sic), a certification and settlement approval hearing took place at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in respect of a settlement agreement with Spencer Brydges with respect to the above-noted action. On December 17, 2020 the Ontario Superior…