Back in January, 2018, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) introduced legislation called “Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections.” In January, 2019, they’ve reintroduced it. A press release from the Attorney General explains: Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine today unveiled legislation to strengthen North Carolina’s laws to prevent…
Graeter’s: Website breach could compromise 12,000 customers’ credit card data
WLWT reports: Cincinnati-based Graeter’s ice cream has issued notices to thousands of customers: Your credit card information may be compromised. The ice cream chain sent out 12,000 notices to customers who made purchases on Graeter’s website last year, saying that an “unauthorized code” was added to the website’s checkout page. As a result, thousands of…
Ex-UBS Worker Guilty of Money Laundering in Data Theft Case, Sentenced to More Than Three Years
Mara Bernath and Hugo Miller report: A former UBS Group AG employee, who fled the country rather than face trial, was found guilty of money laundering by a Swiss court over allegations of the theft and sale of client data to German tax authorities. Rene S., as Bloomberg has identified him, was sentenced by a…
Google hit with €50m fine by CNIL for data privacy breach
The Irish Times reports: Google has been fined €50 million for breaking EU privacy laws in the first case of a US tech giant being caught under Europe’s tough new data protection rules. France’s data protection office (CNIL) found the US search engine guilty of breaking EU privacy laws by failing to obtain adequate consent…
South Africans’ airtime and data stolen through malicious smartphone app
Jamie McKane reports: Mobile technology company Upstream announced earlier this month that it had detected a suspicious weather forecast application which was pre-installed on Alcatel smartphones. The company’s security platform, Secure-D, detected suspicious activity initiated by this application across multiple countries – most notably in Brazil and Malaysia, although South Africa was also affected. The…
Darknet vendor attempts to sell 100,000 hacked KYC documents from major cryptocurrency exchanges
Oliver Knight reports: A darknet vendor is attempting to sell 100,000 know-your-customer (KYC) documents supposedly stolen from major exchanges including Binance, Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Poloniex. The vendor, who posts on the darknet forum ‘Dread’ under the ‘ExploitDot’ moniker, claims to have obtained details from a security breach of a third-party KYC solution provider. Among the…