Catherine Trautwein reports: An Ooredoo Myanmar employee that gave out a customer’s call log has been fired, with the company still pursuing legal action through Mandalay police. The June breach involves an Ooredoo customer in Yangon, her male business associate, an intermediary contact and the former Ooredoo Myanmar employee. The Mandalay office employee passed the…
ReverbNation notifies users of breach, recommends changing passwords
Adam Greenberg reports: ReverbNation – an online platform that currently assists more than three million musicians in building their careers – experienced a breach in 2014, and is now notifying an undisclosed number of users and asking them to change their passwords. According to a ReverbNation statement emailed to SCMagazine.com on Thursday, law enforcement recently notified the company…
The Black-eyed Pea parent, Paymentech go to court over handling of data breach
Danielle Abril reports: The parent company of The Black-eyed Pea and Paymentech are caught up in a 2-year-old legal battle over a data breach that allegedly occurred three years ago. Oddly, the lawsuit, filed with the 68th District Court in Dallas County, says very little about the data breach and neither company seems to have…
Calif. Jury Clears UCLA In $1.25M Medical Data Breach Suit
Bonnie Eslinger reports: The University of California, Los Angeles Health System was not responsible for the unauthorized release of a woman’s medical records by a romantic rival, a California jury decided Thursday, rejecting her lawyer’s arguments that the victim was due $1.25 million for emotional harm caused by the breach. Read more on Law360 (subscription…
Ashley Madison hack miscreants may have earned $6,400 from leak
John Leyden reports: Some blackmail attempts against victims of the ongoing Ashley Madison saga resulted in several – albeit modest – pay outs, according to new research. […] An unknown group or individuals (probably unrelated to the self-styled Impact Team who pulled off the hack) sent extortion emails demanding Bitcoin for silence. Toshiro Nishimura, research…
Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton’s Unreleased Private Emails For $500K
RadarOnline reports: Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price tag — a whopping $500,000! Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of…