From a notification template submitted by the College of Eastern Idaho to the Montana Attorney General’s Office: College of Eastern Idaho (“CEI”), formerly Eastern Idaho Technical College, recently discovered an incident that may affect the security of your personal information. We write to provide you with information about the incident, steps we are taking in…
Brazilian bank Inter pays fine over customer data leak
Angelica Mari reports: Brazilian bank Inter has achieved a settlement over a major security flaw that leaked data of nearly 20 thousand account holders earlier this year. Under the conclusion for the case, announced by Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) on December 18, the bank will pay 1.5 million reais ($382,000) as a means to…
North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked
BBC reports: Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal computer at the state-run centre was found to have been “infected with a malicious code”. The ministry said this is thought to be the first…
Nova warns listeners of data breach affecting more than 260,000 Australians
Jennifer Duke reports: Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova Entertainment has warned more than 250,000 listeners that data collected about them between 2009 and 2011 has been publicly disclosed, including residential addresses and birth dates. Nova chief executive Cathy O’Connor said in a statement on Thursday that individuals were being notified about the steps they can take, with…
BevMo notifying thousands of customers after malware compromise of ecommerce site
From their template notification, submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office by Beverages & More (dba “BevMo”): Notice of Data BreachBevMo recently learned of a data incident from the ecommerce service provider that operates our website at www.bevmo.com. This incident may have affected certain customers’ payment card numbers and other information entered on the BevMo…
French watchdog fines Bouygues 250,000 euros for data security breach
Reuters reports that the CNIL has fined the Parisian telecom, but they don’t provide any real details as to what happened. But here’s a translation, via Google, of the CNIL’s press release: In March 2018, the CNIL received a report informing it of the existence of a security incident which led to making freely accessible the personal data of customers of the…