The plaintiff in one of the class action lawsuits filed against the government over the massive OPM databreach is a judge. Courtney Coren reports on McGarry v. Office of Personnel Management et al., Case No. 1:15-cv-01705, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. OPM, DHS, and Keypoint Government Solutions are named as defendants. Read more…
Uber To Boost Security Staff After Data Privacy Concerns
Aditya Tejas reports: Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. will increase its security team by about fourfold to over 100 employees to quell concerns about data privacy and accessibility, the company’s new chief security officer said Sunday. […]In February, the company reported a major data breach that compromised the personal information of about 50,000 drivers. A report from the…
Missing Link breach impacted 250,000?
Jeff Quackenbush has a piece in Business Journal. I’m not sure where he got his figures from, but he reports: A recent theft of personal and financial records on about a quarter-million winery customers via a data breach at a Calistoga-based direct-to-consumer sales and marketing software company is raising questions about common winery approaches to…
Florida Highway Patrol trooper sues two Jacksonville cops, alleging they illegally looked up her information
Here we go again – cops behaving badly with databases. Andrew Panzati reports: After a Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketed a Miami police officer for driving 120 mph, FDLE records showed that about 90 people across the state — including two Jacksonville police officers — looked up the trooper’s personal information using a police database…
Hacker hits 24 sites to ‘alert’ govt
Arab News reports: A national hacked more than 24 government websites Saturday morning in just two hours after those in charge of these websites ignored messages of a possible attack, said an online newspaper. Through his Twitter account, the hacker “Cyber of Emotion” said that after the government websites ignored his messages about a possible…
Seek and ye shall find: North Dakota breach affecting state employees and volunteers bigger than originally realized
From the North Dakota Information Technology Department, yesterday: ITD has completed its investigation stemming from a cyber-attack that occurred on an ITD-hosted server earlier this summer. Upon identifying the attack, ITD immediately secured the server, locked down the data, and started an investigation. Since that time, the department has been working with federal and state…