Collaborate Disseminate
Abraham Gutman reports: Comcast is one step closer to settling 24 class action lawsuits over a 2023 data breach that potentially impacted over 30 million former and current customers. A $117.5 million settlement agreement received preliminary approval … Continue reading Comcast agrees to $117.5 million settlement to resolve lawsuits over 2023 Citrix Bleed data breach
Thea Felicity reports: The anti-ICE activist app and website StopICE has reportedly suffered a major security breach, exposing the personal information of more than 100,000 users to US federal agencies, including the FBI, ICE and HSI. Hackers said they… Continue reading StopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI
While Zack Whittaker and I work to finish up a report on threats security researchers and journalists receive, there has been more and more news about threats to journalists and journalism. The arrests of Don Lemon and Geraldine Fort for reporting on a… Continue reading When the GDPR is weaponized to shut journalists up, don’t go silently into that dark night
Observer Online Report reports: A major technical failure at [the Bangladesh] Election Commission (EC) website on Saturday exposed the sensitive personal data of approximately 14,000 journalists. The leaked data included National ID (NID) numbers, mobi… Continue reading BD: 14,000 journos’ personal data leaked online
Jonathon Ambarian provides an update on a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net: In October, MTN reported on a major data breach involving customers with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana. Now, as a state investigation into the breach continue… Continue reading Investigation into data breach involving Blue Cross Blue Shield members could head to court
The SK Telecom breach, which has already generated significant coverage on this site and other outlets, continues to make headlines. This time, it is because after announcing they were accepting full responsibility for the breach, they sued to overtur… Continue reading SK Telecom rejects consumer agency’s compensation settlement over personal data leak
We all know that President Trump thinks a lot of himself, but he’s put a $10 billion price on the amount of harm his leaked tax returns allegedly caused him and his sons. Yes, Charles Littlejohn, a former Booz Allen employee, apparently decided t… Continue reading Trump sues IRS and the Treasury for $10 Billion Because His Tax Returns Were Leaked
Here’s yet another example of the insider threat, and this time, Google was the victim. Isaiah Poritz reports that after a criminal trial in federal court in the Northern District of California, Linwei Ding has been found guilty of 14 counts of … Continue reading Ex-Google Engineer Guilty of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firm
Here’s your reminder that if federal regulators like HHS OCR don’t investigate and penalize you after a data breach involving patient data, state attorneys general may, and class-action lawyers may also come after you in federal or state co… Continue reading You’re not paranoid: lawyers ARE coming to get you.
Another one bites the dust. Earlier today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice seized RAMP’s clear net and .onion sites. RAMP … Continue reading Russian ransomware forum seized by U.S. law enforcement