Sarra Sundstrom reports: Handshake, the university’s job search platform, experienced a security incident last week that directly affected over 8,000 students and alumni. On Feb. 13, a number of students received a security alert from the university’s Career Center that an unknown party posing as a company on Handshake accessed student resumes. Resumes of...
Canadian Press reports: The personal information of nearly 360,000 teachers in Quebec may have been stolen in a data theft, the Quebec government confirmed on Friday. Quebec’s Treasury Board took stock in the wake of the ongoing investigation by the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) into identity theft of people working or having worked as...
From the this-is-my-shocked-face department. Lucas Wright reports: A lawsuit has been filed against MGM Resorts, following the news that the company experienced a data breach last summer. Florida law group “Morgan & Morgan” says MGM failed to protect the 10 million customers’ personal information, they say was compromised. They also say the company tried...
Dare Shonubi reports: Earlier today, bitcoin Whale suspected to be twitter user, @zhoujianfu took to Reddit to alert the community that both his bitcoin and bitcoin cash wallets had been hacked and funds worth millions of dollars had been stolen. During the act, bitcoin worth $15 million and bitcoin cash worth of $30 million...
Soko Directory Team reports: The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested three suspects in Ngara, Nairobi on suspicion of hacking into NTSA and TIMS databases and issuing fake documents to Kenyans. Detectives found two Kenyan men trying to break into the National Transport And Safety Authority (NTSA) and the TIMS online portals. The...