A hacker contacted the Los Angeles Information Technology Agency last week and claiming to have stolen personal information of 2,500 members of the LAPD and 17,500 applicants to the police force. “Out of an abundance of caution we’re applying extra layers of security around our personnel system and enhancing defenses,” L.A. General Manager Ted Ross…
The FBI arrested a former software engineer from Seattle on charges of computer fraud and abuse after she accessed Capital One Financial Corp. data through a misconfigured web application firewall and stole Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, bank account numbers and other personal information on more than 100 million people. Paige A. Thompson, 33,…
Someone hacked the Twitter account of actress and businesswoman Jessica Alba to post bigoted, racist, and homophobic tweets this past Sunday. The attacks came as a surprise for fans since Alba barely tweets anyway with her last tweet being about dinner with her husband and friends on July 20. The hacker also included a tweet…
The incurred cost of being hit with a data breach for small and large corporations rose by double digits over the last five years to almost $4 million per breach. IBM’s worldwide annual study looking at the financial impact suffered by data breach victims rose 12 percent over the last five years, with larger firms…
Equifax will pay between $330 million to $425 million to a restitution fund for victims in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a 2017 breach that exposed the personal information of 148 million people. The company came under fire for its poor security practices that had it missing an Apache Struts vulnerability responsible…
Hackers reportedly stole 7.5 TB of data from a contractor for the Russian intelligence service FSB, and revealed details on several of its activities or prospective projects, including the collecting of information on users of social media services, Tor and P2P networks. The contractor, SyTech, has worked for FSB’s radio-electronic intelligence unit 71330 since 2009,…
The list of companies impacted by the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) data breach has grown, with Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) now reporting that the PHI of about 2.2 million customers may have been affected. CPL began notifying patients on July 5 that it had been caught up in the AMCA breach after learning last…
Threat actors gained unauthorized access to an undisclosed number of Sprint customer accounts via a compromised Samsung website. “On June 22, Sprint was informed of unauthorized access to your Sprint account using your account credentials via the Samsung.com ‘add a line’ website,” the wireless provider said in a letter to impacted customers posted on Scribd. “The…
A new addition to the data breach reference website “Have I Been Pwned?” seemingly reveals that more than 100 million accounts were compromised in this year’s data breach of the event-planning service Evite. “Have I Been Pwned?” founder Troy Hunt added a database of 100,985,047 affected accounts to his site on July 14, and in…
Premera Blue Cross has consented to pay $10 million as compensation for a nearly year-long data breach that impacted more than 10.4 million health patients, the Washington state’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced yesterday. More than half of those funds, roughly $5.4 million, will be allocated to Washington, and will be applied toward the enforcement…
