Seagate was one of many companies whose employee W-2 data were phished in 2016. In September 2016, the employees sued over the incident. Now Dave Simpson reports that the suit has a tentative settlement: Seagate Technologies LLC has agreed to a settlement that includes services valued at $5.75 million to end a proposed class action…
Ola employee accused of data theft from Aadhaar website
The Business Standard reports: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has registered a case with the Bengaluru Police against Abhinav Srivastava and Qarth Technologies Pvt Ltd for misusing Aadhaar data obtained from its website without any authentication. Chennai-based Qarth Technologies was acquired by India’s largest taxi aggregator Ola in March last year, to help…
Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota notifies 10,200 after ransomware attack
From their web site, the practice’s notification. Note that some of the crucial data that might have enabled them to justify no need for notifications was lost/corrupted during the clean-up from the ransomware. Based on reports I’ve read over the past year, losing data during clean-up is not that rare, which should serve as a…
Health data breaches in 2017: The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year? Join us for webinar!
By now, you’ve probably read at least a few reports on mid-year figures for breaches that suggest that 2017 is worse than 2016. In collaboration with Protenus, Inc., DataBreaches.net has worked up some mid-year figures for U.S. breaches involving health/medical data. Join me and Robert Lord of Protenus on Wednesday, August 2 at 1 pm,…
D.C. Mistakenly Disclosed Confidential Information Of Homeless Residents To Advocacy Group
Martin Austermuhle reports: The D.C. Department of Human Services says it mistakenly disclosed confidential information of close to 1,500 households receiving housing assistance to a homeless advocacy group, which then used the information to contact those people directly — a move that the city agency says was unethical, but that the group defends as being in the…
Hackers Selling Access to Critical Infrastructure on Darknet
Joshua Philipp reports: Cyber mercenaries are breaching the systems of governments, financial institutions, critical infrastructure, and businesses, then selling access to them on a marketplace on the darknet, a hidden internet accessible only via specialized software. All of this is happening on a darknet black marketplace known as the CMarket or “Criminal Market,” formerly known as…