We know that no security is perfect, but when a company collecting and storing teenagers’ data has repeated breaches, it’s cause for concern – and possible investigation by federal and state regulators. In 2017, we learned that the popular teen quiz app, Wishbone, had been “hacked.” According to reports at the time, hackers snagged 2.2…
Ohioans’ and Coloradans’ personal info exposed in pandemic unemployment data breaches
Two more states have reported breaches or issues with state portals to apply for pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In Ohio, Maggy McDonel reports: The personal information of Ohioans receiving pandemic unemployment assistance was recently exposed to a data breach, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The information reportedly included names, Social Security numbers…
How secure is your child’s data in Virginia’s virtual classrooms?
Tom Nash or the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism reports: … As the pandemic forces Virginia’s 1.2 million public school students to trade classrooms for laptops and smartphones — if they have them — many educators, parents and privacy advocates are raising alarms across the state about children’s digital security. Lapses in online protections have…
ADT employee spied on customers for years through their security cameras, lawsuits claim
Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…
Data Leak Suggests China Had Hundreds of Thousands of Coronavirus Cases in 230 Cities
Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients
Andrey Shevchenko reports: Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the company’s client data was breached through a SIM card swap attack performed on one of its employees. Read more on CoinTelegraph.