Some Danish breach statistics, as seen at Telecompaper: The Danish Data Authority said 2,780 incidents of privacy breaches were reported to it from 25 May, when reporting such breaches became mandatory, and the end of 2018. It said approximately two thirds of these cases concerned information sent to the wrong recipient. Four out of five…
Trakt tardily notifies users of data breach that took place over four years ago
Mark Wycislik-Wilson reports: Users of Trakt — a service for “scrobbling”, or tracking the movies and TV shows you watch in the likes of Plex and Kodi — have received emails from the company notifying them of a data breach that took place way back in 2014. Trakt says that although the security breach took…
Accused hacker Lauri Love to sue National Crime Agency to retrieve confiscated computing kit
Paul Kunert reports: Lauri Love, the Brit who beat US attempts to extradite him over accusations of hacking, is suing Blighty’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to get back computing gear seized in 2013 as part of the case against him. More than five years ago, Love was indicted across the pond over allegations he hacked…
Report: Over 59,000 GDPR data breach notifications, but only 91 fines
Lucian Constantin reports: Since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May last year, EU organizations have reported almost 60,000 data breaches, but so far fewer than 100 fines have been issued by regulators. According to a new report by multinational law firm DLA Piper, the European Commission’s official statistics…
Accusations fly between a researcher and a vendor over a vulnerability and a bug bounty that was never paid
Wow. Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient has assaulted the security researcher who disclosed the vulnerability at the ICE conference in London. This is the story of a vulnerability disclosure gone bad, one involving the FBI, a vendor with a global customer base of casinos and…
Bayside Covenant Church Provides Notice of Data Breach
ROSEVILLE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — What Happened? In October of 2018, Bayside became aware of suspicious activity in certain employees’ email accounts. Bayside immediately began an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of this activity. Through the investigation, which included working with third party forensic investigators, we determined that the unauthorized actors accessed…