Steve Bertel reports: The Nampa School District Thursday informed its employees of a potential security issue involving personally identifiable information. “The district discovered an individual had gained unauthorized access to a school district e-mail account, which contained information about 3,983 of its current and past employees,” said Nampa School District spokeswoman Kathleen Tuck. “The breach…
Citing “irreparable damage,” Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca will close
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a breach does sound a death knell for a firm. Cat Rutter Pooley and Barney Thompson report: Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, will close at the end of March, according to a statement from the firm obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative…
Svitzer employee details stolen in data breach affecting almost half of its Australian employees
Ariel Bogle reports: The shipping company Svitzer has suffered a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees. It is among the first incidents to be disclosed under Australia’s new notifiable data breaches scheme. For almost 11 months, emails from three Australian employee email accounts were secretly auto-forwarded outside the company. The perpetrator has…
Walmart jewelry partner exposed 1.3 million customer details
Bob Diachenko writes: On February 6th, 2018 researchers at Kromtech security came across another publicly accessible Amazon s3 bucket. This one contained a MSSQL database backup, which was found to hold the personal information, including names, addresses, zip codes, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, ip addresses, and, most shockingly, plain text passwords, for shopping accounts of over…
Queensland Department of Transport breached by hackers in December
Josh Bavas reports: Overseas hackers breached the Queensland Transport Department’s security network last year, before attempting to steal information from staff members from other sections of government. The cyber breach occurred in December, according to details obtained by ABC News under a Right to Information request. The Department of Transport and Main Roads holds information…
MO: Olathe restaurant owner accused of identity theft
KSHB in Kansas City reports: An Olathe barbecue restaurant owner is facing accusations of credit card fraud. Mathew Sander is facing 19 different charges in three separate cases. Sander owns Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. Read more on KSHB.