Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). ” continues the Department. .

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2019

Dominion National Says Recently Discovered Incident Dates Back to 2010 A dental and vision insurer's revelation that it recently discovered a 9-year-old data security incident offers an extreme example of the difficulty some organizations have in detecting data breaches.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. June 2019’s total of 39,713,046 breached records is the lowest since May last year – the month that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2020

The US-based School management software provider Active Network disclosed a severe security breach last week. Active Network provides web-based school management software for K-12 schools and districts, last week it announced to have suffered a major security breach. ” reads the notice of data breach.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

Prosecutors said it had indexed, searchable information from more than 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records — including names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. That’s about when AOL sold the platform in 2010 to Russian investor DST for $187.5

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

The blog featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world,” and even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” Kloster’s blog enthused. “We

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2018

Customer Data Security Breach Litigation , had not sufficiently alleged injury in fact to establish Article III standing. As a threshold matter, this was the first occasion the Ninth Circuit had to find that its 2010 data breach standing precedent in Krottner v. Starbucks could be reconciled with the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

A native of Omsk, Russia, Kloster came into focus after KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master’s identity on the cybercrime forums to Kloster’s personal blog , which featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells “security and anonymity services to customers around the world.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2011

On July 6, 2011, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) released its Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2010/11. In the media release accompanying the publication of the Annual Report, the ICO drew attention to the increase in reported data breaches and urged companies to audit their data protection practices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 20, 2018

finding that allegations of future risk of identity theft from a data breach are sufficient to confer standing. 2010), which allowed Starbucks employees to sue when a company laptop containing personal information was stolen, but plaintiffs had not suffered identity theft as a result. Starbucks Corp. , 3d 1139 (9th Cir.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

In November 2022, the Singapore High Court found an IT vendor liable for a data leak suffered by its customer, a major gaming company, and awarded SGD 8.7 The data breach involved shipping information and order details of thousands of customers worldwide being leaked online. Indonesia enacts new data privacy law.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 30, 2013

On May 29, 2013, a bill , accompanied by an explanatory memorandum , was proposed in the Australian Parliament that requires businesses and government agencies that experience a serious data breach to notify affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (“OAIC”).

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2011

On January 14, 2011, the European Network and Information Security Agency (“ENISA”), which was created to enhance information security within the European Union, published a report entitled “ Data breach notifications in the EU ” (the “Report”).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 7, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that South Shore Hospital agreed to a consent judgment and $750,000 payment to settle a lawsuit stemming from a data breach that occurred in February 2010. Belmont Savings Bank and Briar Group, LLC.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced on October 29, 2010, that he has sued health insurer WellPoint, Inc. for alleged failure to provide timely notification of a data breach. This incident underscores the importance of rapidly investigating and addressing potential data breaches.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

On November 8, 2010, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan announced that Health Net of Connecticut, Inc. (“Health Net”) had agreed to pay $375,000 in penalties for failing to safeguard the personal information of its members from misuse by third parties.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

As cloud computing evolves, so has cloud security, and buyers in the market for cloud security solutions may find themselves facing a dizzying array of acronyms, like CNAPP, CWPP, CSPM, and CIEM. Securing all those new cloud environments and connections became a job for cybersecurity companies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In August 2017, Fancy Bears hackers claimed that around 160 football players failed drug tests in 2015, and 25 2010 World Cup players used doping medicines. Security Affairs – hacking, data breach). The post FIFA was hacked again, this is the second hack in a year appeared first on Security Affairs. ” . .

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 23, 2015

District Court for the Central District of California recently granted, only in part, a motion to dismiss a data breach class action against Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. The litigation arose from a security breach at Sony where the sensitive and personal information of at least 15,000 former and current Sony employees was stolen.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

According to the DoJ, the WikiLeaks founder conspired and tried to recruit Anonymous and LulzSec hacker to steal confidential and secret data on his behalf. “In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. ” states DoJ. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

million civil monetary penalty against Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (“Children’s”) for alleged ongoing violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules, following two consecutive breaches of patient electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2010

On January 12, 2010, the UK government laid regulations before Parliament to bring into force civil monetary penalties of up to £500,000 ($800,000) for serious data breaches. These penalties are likely to take effect starting April 6, 2010. Over 700 data breaches have been reported in the UK in the last two years.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. “These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that evolved over years that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security,” according to the report.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 4, 2010

On May 28, 2010, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office issued a press release stating that it has been notified of more than 1,000 data security breaches since it began keeping records in late 2007. Since the breach, HMRC has launched an investigation to identify why the error was overlooked.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Cloud workload protection (CWP) is the process of monitoring and securing cloud workloads from threats, vulnerabilities, and unwanted access, and is typically accomplished via Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP). It provides full cloud security management, reducing risks and protecting assets.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The proposed Bill would require telecom and internet service providers to notify the Dutch Telecom Authority (the “OPTA”) without delay in the event of a security breach involving personal data.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has indicated that UK law firm ACS:Law could face a maximum penalty of £500,000 following a major data breach. The ICO is in the process of investigating the data breach before deciding whether enforcement action, including a fine of up to £500,0000, is appropriate.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Fifteen years ago, the risk of material business or legal exposure from state data breach notification and data protection laws in the US, EU and elsewhere was profoundly different than it is today. Even when data breaches resulted in class actions, the suits were routinely dismissed because courts found no compensable injury.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A reverse WHOIS search on “Vytautas Mockus” at DomainTools shows the email address devrian25@gmail.com was used in 2010 to register the domain name perfectmoney[.]co. Gmail accepts the address bo3domster@gmail.com as the recovery email for that devrian27 account. This is one character off of perfectmoney[.]com

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Security Affairs – Radisson Hotel Group, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 17, 2019

On 6 June, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the “ PCPD “) issued an enforcement notice against Cathay Pacific Airways (and its affiliate Hong Kong Dragon Airlines) (together, “ Cathay Pacific “) in respect of a data breach concerning unauthorized access to the personal data of some 9.4

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Gupta said the report qualified as a “medium” severity security issue in Shifter’s brand new bug bounty program (the site makes no mention of a bug bounty), which he said offers up to $2,000 for reporting data exposure issues like the one they just fixed. .” pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 18, 2011

Instead, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) has required Lush to sign an undertaking that obliges the company to “ensure that future customer credit card data will be processed in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.”.

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