Catalin Cimpanu reports: Facebook has filed a lawsuit on Friday against a Ukrainian national for allegedly scraping its website and selling the personal data of more than 178 million users on an underground cybercrime forum. According to court documents filed today, the man was identified as Alexander Alexandrovich Solonchenko, a resident of Kirovograd, Ukraine. Facebook alleges that Solonchenko…
Category: Breaches
Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy Suit
Cecilia Kang reports: The attorney general for the District of Columbia plans to add Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to a consumer protection lawsuit, in one of the first efforts by a regulator to expose him personally to potential financial and other penalties. The attorney general, Karl Racine, said on Tuesday that continuing interviews and…
Investigation of E-911 Center reveals complaints of hostile workplace, medical privacy violations, missing public records
Keely Quinlan reports from Tennessee: Kerston Abbott worked at the Montgomery County E-911 Center for nine years before she quit in October 2020, taking a massive pay cut and giving up her county benefits. She said she never had any intention of leaving until Hope Petersen was appointed director of E-911 in January 2020, launching…
Texas hospital receives death threats, bomb threats after photo of COVID patient was posted online
Caitlin Randle reports: Medical Center Hospital reported Thursday that hospital staff have received death threats and bomb threats after a photo was posted on social media showing a COVID-19 patient wearing a plastic drape. The photo was shared on Facebook by a group called the Odessa Accountability Project, which wrote that the patient is a…