Tracey Kitten reports: A March 2010 incident of corporate account takeover has led to yet another legal dispute between a commercial customer and its former bank. [See the complaint.] California-based Village View Escrow Inc. on June 27 filed a complaint with the California Superior Court, Los Angeles, against Professional Business Bank, claiming the bank is liable for the $465,000 financial…
LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice
Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…
Ru: Megafon screws up and users’ SMS messages get indexed by a search engine
Eugene Kapersky writes: One of the biggest Russian mobile operators Megafon with 57+ million user base leaked the users’ SMS history. Thousands of messages are now available online that caused a major nation-wide scandal. There is another company that may have been involved in the issue – Yandex, the biggest national search engine that could have indexed either some classified storage or SMS…
Beth Israel reports potential data breach (update2)
Hiawatha Bray reports: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is notifying more than 2,000 of its patients that some of their personal information may have been stolen from a hospital computer. The hospital said today that an unnamed computer service vendor had failed to restore proper security settings on the computer after performing maintenance on it….
JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords
I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked. A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name. The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems. The picture gallery has been removed…
Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval
If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010. Then they settled…