McKenzie Romero reports: A letter sent to customers and distributors from doTERRA, the Utah-based essential oil company, is warning that an apparent data breach last month may have compromised their personal information. A letter dated April 18 explains that a breach of doTERRA’s third-party data hosting and software service provider may have accessed the names,…
NY: Tax refund fraud reported by Stony Point employees under investigation
It looks like employees of yet another town may have become victims of tax refund fraud, and the town is trying to determine the cause. This time, the report comes from Stony Point, New York, where 30 current and former employees have reported that when they attempted to file their tax returns, they discovered that…
Former PwC employees on trial in Lux Leaks breach and scandal
There’s a new development in an insider breach that created shock waves internationally As I had noted back in 2014, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee charged with copying and leaking files to the media (the “Lux Leaks” case) had suggested that he wasn’t the only employee involved. Now Fraser Simpson reports that today, two former PwC employees…
INAI urges Mexican Senate to pass legislation to help protect personal information
In the wake of the massive voter data leak affecting 87 million Mexican voters, INAI has urged the Senate to pass secondary legislation that would strengthen data protection by expanding the law to apply to political parties and agencies, and not just private businesses. I would think the leak would be enough to garner legislative support…
SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases, issues software security update
Jim Finkle reports: SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers on Monday that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the…
Presidential campaign apps expose personal data, report says
First it was their web sites failing to protect privacy, and now it’s their apps. Cory Bennett reports: Over half of presidential campaign-related smartphone apps on Android devices are exposing users’ sensitive data, according to new research. Presidential campaigns — and the groups that support them — are increasingly using smartphone apps to try to…