Long-time readers will remember the 2012 Zappos breach that impacted 24 million of their online customers. The breach and its resulting litigation have been covered on this site previously, including Zappos’s failure in March of this year to get the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a Ninth Circuit decision that had allowed...
Update: It was a Maryland student who did it. Brad Shear forwarded a notice he received yesterday concerning a breach impacting students of the Montgomery County Public School District. The cover email, from Luana Zimmerman of college career service Naviance began: Due to a recent data security incident in Naviance that affected one of...
We spent a good amount of time in the cybersecurity forum today talking about the Equifax breach. Here’s a summary of some of their key failures, reported by Josh Fruhlinger and based on A U.S. General Accounting Office’s report, and an in-depth analysis from Bloomberg Businessweek. Here are just two of the findings, as reported by...
On August 12, 2019, Monterey Health Center in Oregon became aware that they had suffered a ransomware attack. According to a press release issued yesterday, they were able to restore patient data, and were able to rule out any data exfiltration, but were not able to rule out access to the patient data. The...
No Kremlin Link Found to Russian Hacker Awaiting Extradition in Israel; One of Top 100 Hackers in the World?