Frédéric Tomesco reports: The privacy breach at Mouvement Desjardins now extends to credit cardholders. About 1.8-million cardholders who are not Desjardins members may have had their personal information compromised, chief executive officer Guy Cormier said Tuesday. The rogue employee at the centre of the leak — who has since been fired — had access to banking details…
Indiana objects to proposed Equifax data breach settlement
According to Bloomberg Law, Indiana has filed an objection to the proposed Equifax data breach settlement. The state wants the language of the settlement changed to exclude further actions by state attorneys general, or failing that, for the court to reject the proposed settlement.
Helix IPTV: Hackers Threaten to Expose Resellers & Customers
Andy writes: Popular ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Helix Hosting appears to be facing a crisis after someone claiming to be a hacker posted a message on the service’s homepage. According to the statement, Helix failed to pay a ransom so as a result, the personal details of customers and resellers, plus an owner’s name, address and…
Hairmyres Hospital creep facing jail over data protection breach
East Kilbride News reports: A Hairmyres Hospital worker chatted up patients after breaching data protection rules to get contact details from their medical records. Andrew Stewart had access to patient files at two different medical facilities, and allegedly misused his access privileges to obtain contact data on female patients whom he would then contact. He…
Public Relations: How a Marketing & PR Platform Exposed Thousands of Users
The UpGuard research team reports: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a data collection originating from iPR Software (risk score: 683) containing details of 477,000 media contacts, business entity account information, over 35,000 user password hashes, assorted documents, and administrative system credentials has been secured. The Amazon S3 storage bucket contained a large collection…
Pensacola officials not sure if cyberattack related to shooting at naval air station
Tina Burnside and Eric Levenson report: The city of Pensacola, Florida, said it has experienced a cyber “incident” and has disconnected several city services until the issue can be resolved. Mayor Grover Robinson told CNN affiliate WEAR the city has been dealing with a cyberattack since late Friday. Read more on CNN. h/t, @VERISDB