Reuters reports: Colombia has given ride-hailing app Uber Technologies four months to improve its data security, the commerce regulator said on Tuesday, after a 2016 data breach affected more than 260,000 of the South American country’s residents. Last year, Uber agreed to pay a fine of $148 million in a settlement reached in the United…
TN: Data breach of vendor puts personal info of TN high school students at risk
Carley Gordon reports: The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is currently investigating a possible data breach of a 3rd party vendor, that potentially has exposed personal information of thousands of public school students across Tennessee. The Commission is a state organization focused on assisting high school seniors in every element of accessing higher education. The Tennessee Higher…
Personal information for 70,000 Hawaii students potentially compromised
HNN reports: Personal information for as many as 70,000 public school students may have been compromised after a University of Hawaii vendor charged with overseeing a college and career planning website detected “suspicious” unauthorized access to one of its servers. […] The University of Hawaii’s P-20 Partnerships for Education provided the third-party vendor ― Graduation…
QuickBit Confirms Details of More Than 300,000 Customers Were Exposed
Neil Dennis reports: QuickBit, a cryptocurrency exchange listed in Sweden, confirmed on Monday reports of a security breach that left many of its customer records exposed. Reporting for Comparitech, tech writer Paul Bischoff claimed that a database containing more than 300,000 customer records was left open so “anyone online could view its contents”. Read more…
All clear? Server exposure from Illinois vendor with access to driver’s license data raises questions
Tina Sfondeles reports: A computer server of a vendor with city and state contracts to sell Illinois license plate stickers and Chicago vehicle stickers at currency exchanges was exposed to the Internet in May — although city and state officials insist there was no security breach. But that’s not enough for one Cook County watchdog,…
Here’s what data breaches are costing companies in 2019
Thomas Barrabi reports: The typical consumer data breach costs compromised businesses millions of dollars, with expenses rising exponentially for incidents on par with those that affected Equifax or Facebook in recent years, according to new research from IBM Security and Ponemon Institute. On a global scale, the average data breach exposes 25,575 sensitive consumer records and carries…