The Middle East Monitor reports: An unknown entity has breached the website of the Shin Bet veterans’ association, Shoval, and may have stolen the details of the intelligence agency’s former employees, the French website Intelligence Online has reported. According to the website, the agency’s management has requested members of the association to be cautious, especially when travelling…
Queensland passes mandatory data breach notice laws
Justin Hendry reports: Queensland has become only the second state to legislate a mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities, as an almost identical scheme comes into effect in New South Wales. The Information Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023 passed through the Queensland state Parliament on Wednesday, less than two months…
A cyberattack hit thousands of people in Louisiana. They’re still in the dark months later. (2)
Stephen Marcantel reports: It was early August when teacher Heather Vidrine first heard about a cyberattack on her former school district in St. Landry Parish, but she didn’t think much about it — even after her Facebook got hacked. Now, she’s left to wonder whether the two are connected. Her Social Security number and other…
KidSecurity’s user data compromised after app failed to set password
Paulina Okunytė reports: KidSecurity, a popular parental control app that’s used to track children, has exposed its activity logs, leaving users’ private data in the hands of threat actors. With more than a million downloads on Google Play, KidSecurity provides parents with services to track their children’s location, listen to the sounds around the child…
Hacker breaks silence following a decade behind bars in Cybernews documentary
DataBreaches first reported on Jesse William McGraw of Arlington, Texas, a/k/a “GhostExodus,” was when he was arrested by the FBI in June 2009 and then indicted in July 2009 on federal felony charges related to hacking into Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. McGraw, who worked as a contract security guard at North Central Medical Plaza,…
Attorney General James Warns New Yorkers Impacted by Medical Company’s Data Breach of Potential Identity Theft
November 28 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned New Yorkers impacted by a data breach at a medical transcription company, Perry Johnson & Associates, to take action to prevent potential identity theft. The company experienced a data breach affecting nearly nine million patients, including approximately four million New Yorkers in…