Ryan P. Blaney, Margaret A. Dale, Nolan Goldberg, and Amy Gordon of Proskauer write: Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California recently dismissed a putative class action lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed they faced an imminent threat of future of harm in the form of identity theft and fraud because their personal information,…
Update to LastPass incident: Customers should read it
From an update from LastPass: Based on our investigation to date, we have learned that an unknown threat actor accessed a cloud-based storage environment leveraging information obtained from the incident we previously disclosed in August of 2022. While no customer data was accessed during the August 2022 incident, some source code and technical information were…
Data leak at Degroof Petercam affects hundreds of Belgian companies
The BrusselsTimes reports: A data leak at Belgian merchant bank Degroof Petercam has compromised the data of hundreds of the bank’s clients, including major Belgium companies and corporations, Le Soir reports. An employee of the bank is reported to have abused his access to customer information and illegally downloaded client files. Le Soir learned of the leak…
TX: DA’s office probing San Benito Consolidated School District security breach
While the investigation into the Karakurt attack on the San Benito school district continues, there’s another aspect to the story. Fernando Del Valle reports: On Wednesday, attorney John Shergold said district Superintendent Theresa Servellon suspended Todd English, the district’s technology director, for reporting the security breach to her and district Police Chief Juan Sosa on…
Corporate Tech Leaders Untangle Their Cybersecurity Roles
Belle Lin reports: Information technology and cybersecurity chiefs grew closer than ever in 2022, a dynamic allowing for more comprehensive threat mitigation, but raising new questions over responsibilities. Many executives now say that as their roles around cyber appear to converge, they are working to sort out the dividing lines between their shared security and IT responsibilities….
Sports betting operator BetMGM hit by data breach
Aishwarya Nair reports: Sports betting service BetMGM said on Wednesday personal information of its customers were obtained in an unauthorized manner, but did not specify the number of users affected. The issue affected customer information such as name, contact information, date of birth, hashed Social Security number, account identifiers and information related to transactions with…