Steve Myers gives us a winner for email gaffe of the month: The Bank of England has been the latest victim of the internet. Well, no. They’re not a victim of the internet as much as they are a victim of their own human error, but read on…. They have taught all of us a very…
North Dakota amends data breach notification law
Christin McMeley and Bryan Thompson write: On April 13 North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple signed S. 2214 into law, which amended the state’s data breach statute in an attempt to expand the reach of the state’s notification requirements and the range of businesses subject to them. As the law is currently written, North Dakota’s data breach statute…
2.8 million victims squared up by malicious Minecraft apps
This seems to be Minecraft’s day to get bad press on this blog. First a forum hack gets disclosed and now Darren Pauli reports that malicious apps masquerading as Minecraft apps are causing problems for users: ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko says a whopping 2.8 million users have downloaded malicious Minecraft Android applications. Stefanko found 30…
Minecraft Pocket Edition forum hacked, dumped
The minecraftpeforum.net domain has recently expired, but before it expired, it seems it was hacked. @rmsg0d, a member of TeaMp0isoN, dropped their forum’s database containing 16,125 records with userids, usernames, password, salt, loginkey, e-mail addresses, and numerous other fields relating to forum participation. In some cases, users seems to have actually provided their birthdates. Because the…
Breach compromises more than 1,000 debit cards in Metro Vancouver
CTV reports: Accounts of more than 1,000 Vancity customers have been compromised after their debit card numbers were stolen while making purchases in Metro Vancouver. “We found out this morning from Central One, our card provider, that two Vancouver-area retailers have had their card machines compromised as a result of a skimming operation,” Vancity spokesperson…
Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company reports lost flash drive
I really miss the days when NYS posted all the breach notifications it received online, but they still occasionally post breach alerts. This week, the NYS Department of Financial Services posted an alert concerning Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company. In looking into it, I discovered that LocalSYR.com had reported the breach on April 21st: Columbian Mutual…