Tag: investigation

October 31, 2022

A global supplier of premium label solutions, MCC operates roughly 100 label producing operations and has approximately 10,000 employees. MCC provides label solutions to organizations in the automotive, beverage, chemicals, food, healthcare, technical, and other industries. In a data breach […]

October 7, 2019

West Virginia’s mobile voting app is the latest target of an FBI investigation into attempts to hack the 2018 midterm elections through Voatz, an experimental app that lets voters who are active military or registered to vote abroad vote from […]

October 3, 2019

Authorities launched a criminal investigation on an American Express employee that is suspected to accessed to cardholder information and potentially abused for fraud. Exposed information includes full name, physical and/or billing address, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and the credit […]

May 15, 2019

Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear it might be inaccurate, the city’s Board of Supervisors decided in a 8-1 vote on Tuesday, according to […]

March 3, 2017

Cloudflare investigated the mass leaking of encrypted browsing sessions Google’s experts discovered, but found no evidence of exploitation, despite the huge vulnerability the bug brought to the table. The company admits that this vulnerability had the potential to be much worse, […]

January 27, 2017

Internet giant Yahoo has confirmed it is to be investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with two major data breaches discovered at the company last year. In a November 2016 quarterly filing, the company said […]

November 2, 2016

Consultant firm Booz Allen Hamilton has engaged the services of former FBI director Robert Mueller for an external review of its security practice after one of its employees contracted with the National Security Agency (NSA) was arrested on charges of […]

September 26, 2016

Investigators believe the apparent theft of NSA code for potent cyber weaponry was the fault of an operator accidentally leaving the tools exposed, reports Reuters, a mistake the NSA was aware of and chose to use for intelligence gathering purposes. […]

July 29, 2016

The FBI is investigating a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) that may be related to the cyberattack earlier this year on the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Reuters reports. The cyber intrusion at the DCCC, the fundraising arm for […]

July 6, 2016

The head of the FBI on Tuesday refused to rule out the possibility that hackers may have broken into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Federal investigators found no direct evidence that hackers had managed to break into the server or […]

April 12, 2016

In the first months of 2016 a number of European countries have stated that Facebook is behaving irresponsible when it comes to users’ privacy. Facebook disagrees. In the beginning of February the French data protection authority proclaimed that Mark Zukerberg’s […]

March 1, 2016

Pirates used hacked information from a global shipping company’s servers to target and capture cargo ships on the high seas, and a water utility’s valves and ducts were hijacked: these are some of the more dramatic scenarios representing cases Verizon’s […]

February 19, 2016

Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website’s password recovery feature. The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last […]

January 28, 2016

Few scenarios conjure up digital nightmares darker than a hacked, Internet-connected camera pointing at a baby’s crib. After a string of incidents in which hackers have watched or even verbally harassed children through baby monitors, the devices have come to […]

September 29, 2015

The #trump Hotel Collection confirmed this week that they had in fact fallen victim to a #malware infection. The infection was specific to their property in #las vegas according to the breach notification that was posted on Friday. The malware […]

September 3, 2015

Earlier this year the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (#ico), along with 28 other data protection regulators from around the world, announced an #investigation into how #websites and #apps – squarely aimed at #children – were collecting and sharing personal information. […]

August 7, 2015

Imagine that you’re cruising along at 112 kilometers per hour, confident in the stability and security of your brand new Jeep Cherokee. Suddenly, you begin to notice that the air conditioning has come on by itself. Next of all the […]