Tag: records

October 6, 2022

A U.S. federal court jury has found former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan guilty of not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators and attempting to cover up the incident. Sullivan has been convicted on […]

November 14, 2019

According to Risk Based Security’s Q3 2019 Data Breach QuickView Report, the total number of breaches was up 33.3% compared to Q3 2018, with 5,183 breaches reported in the first nine months of 2019. Breach activity in 2019 is living […]

August 16, 2019

The number of reported breaches has gone up by 54% and the number of exposed records by 52% compared to the first six months of 2018 according to the 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report, released by Risk Based Security. […]

October 17, 2018

Approaching the November midterm elections, researchers discovered 35 million U.S. voter records from 19 states being sold on a hacking forum. The voter data records being sold reportedly include “full name, phone numbers, physical addresses, voting history, and other unspecified […]

June 29, 2018

The National Security Agency is deleting years’ worth of call records collected for foreign intelligence purposes, saying that “technical irregularities” resulted in the spy agency collecting data it was not authorized to receive. The NSA issued a statement Thursday revealing […]

July 19, 2016

Roughly once a month, every month, there is a new article or report of a hospital held hostage by ransomware; a former employee stealing hospital records; the careless loss of a laptop, smartphone or tablet PC by hospital personnel; or […]

November 12, 2015

One of the leading providers of prison phone services has been recording calls between inmates and their attorneys, according to an anonymous hacker who turned over some 70 million phone records to The Intercept. In an apparent act of “hacktivism,” the […]

November 11, 2015

Federal courts have long given the government leeway to survive and collect so-called “non-content” data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails, for instance, rather than contents of those communications. But an unlikely case involving Google may mean […]

October 15, 2015

A post to #pastebin containing account details for #electronic arts (#ea) customers hit a little too close to home for one gamer, who found his email address, account password, and games list among the harvested data. EA has been told […]

August 4, 2015

Federal watchdogs have opened a new front in their battle with the Justice Department for access to records to root out waste, fraud and abuse, an appeal to Congress for legislation affirming their authority to conduct independent oversight. The Council […]

July 13, 2015

The OPM data breach the U.S. government announced on June 4th qualifies as a 15 on a scale from one to 10, by the loss of credit card numbers and names. Initial estimate approximated 4.2 million affected people, a number […]

June 28, 2015

Now that Congress has completed its cross-examination of Katherine Archuleta, at least for the moment, she’ll have more time to figure out what happened during the massive theft of federal employee records. After four congressional hearings, including three last week, […]