Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…
OH: District officials: Data breach affected only a few students
Nate Ellis reports: Tech-savvy Upper Arlington High School students recently used their know-how and computers issued by the district to access privileged information of their peers, according to school officials. District officials informed parents via email Oct. 5 that “some students” had discovered a way to use their district-issued laptop computers to access an active…
Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to ‘suppress’ mass email leaks
Jason Murdock reports: In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide…
IE: Private investigator guilty of data protection breach
RTÉ reports: The director of a Galway-based private investigation company has pleaded guilty at Tuam District Court to breaches of the Data Protection Act. Michael Ryan, of Glen Collection Investments Ltd, in Glenamaddy, obtained personal information from the Department of Social Protection when he was working on behalf of AIB and Bank of Ireland. Read…
KS: Hutchinson Community Foundation reports ransomware incident
The Hutchinson Community Foundation is making donors, vendors and other stakeholders aware of a data breach that might have compromised personal and financial information. […] The breach came to the Community Foundation staff’s attention Sept. 19, when ransomware was discovered on the foundation’s network server. Ransomware encrypts files until a “ransom” is paid. Fortunately, the…
CN: 201 people arrested in infringement of personal information case
CRI reports: Chinese police have arrested 201 suspects in an infringement of citizen’s personal information case, the Ministry of Public Security said Sunday. The case sprawled 25 provincial regions across China. […] Initial investigations showed nine gangs were involved. Each gang consisted of information sources together with three levels of agents. Personal information was sold…