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Jan Vermeulen reports: The Information Regulator has slapped credit bureau TransUnion with an enforcement notice following a data breach on 18 March 2022. N4ugthySecTU, the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, alleged that they exfiltrated… Continue reading Major credit bureau slapped with enforcement notice for data breach in South Africa
Alicia Hope reports: Nissan Oceania is notifying 100,000 individuals that the December 2023 data breach exposed their personal information. The New Zealand and Australia-based subsidiary of the Japanese automaker Nissan said it detected “unauthorized a… Continue reading Nissan Oceania Data Breach Impacts 100,000 Individuals in Australia and New Zealand
Kathryn M. Rattigan of Robinson & Cole LLP writes: Convergent Outsourcing Inc., a debt-collection agency, settled a data breach class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington for $2.45 million. The class action suit … Continue reading Convergent Outsourcing Settles Data Breach Class Action for $2.45 Million
A coalition of state attorneys general have sent a letter to Meta asking them to do more to help users whose accounts have been hacked or taken over. The letter to Meta’s Chief Legal Officer begins: Dear Ms. Newstead: We, the undersigned attorn… Continue reading 41 State Attorneys General tell Meta to do better in preventing and mitigating account takeovers
RL360 Insurance Company Limited is an international offshore savings, protection and investment provider, headquartered in the Isle of Man. According to Wikipedia, it is part of the International Financial Group Limited. Threefm reports that John Henry… Continue reading Hacker’s attempt to sue police is ‘abuse of process’
Over the past few weeks, DataBreaches had occasionally checked a dark web leak site by an individual or group called “Mogilevich.” However, DataBreaches didn’t report on any of their claimed victims because the site and the claims see… Continue reading Fraudster’s fake data breach claims should remind media to be careful what we report
Jeremy Nadel reports: The investigation will cover whether the law firm violated the Privacy Act by failing to protect sensitive data or properly notifying individuals affected by the breach. The breach saw 1.1TB of data lost to hackers and impacted 65… Continue reading Au: Privacy Watchdog to investigate HWL Ebsworth over security and notifications
Brian Krebs reports: The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwid… Continue reading U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: Organizations that sell IT services to Uncle Sam are peeved at proposed changes to procurement rules that would require them to allow US government agencies full access to their systems in the event of a security incident. T… Continue reading IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam’s demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
Chip Le Grand reports: Anti-Zionist activists have published the names, images, professions and social media accounts of hundreds of Jewish people working in academia and creative industries, in an escalation of social tensions over the October 7 attac… Continue reading Hundreds of Jewish creatives have names, details taken in leak, published online