Shamoil T. Shipchandler of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has a great commentary about how our country is doing on cybersecurity and privacy. It begins: When it comes right down to it, we are about as bad at cybersecurity as Twitter’s CFO is at Twitter or North Korea is at coming up with new political slogans to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The…
Category: Breaches
Wyoming House committee approves data definition, breach notification bills
James Chilton reports: A House committee on Thursday approved two Senate bills related to private information and companies’ duties in notifying clients of data breaches. The House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee unanimously approved Senate Files 35 and 36. SF35 would establish the actions companies must take if they learn that clients’ personal information…
Ca: Iggy Azalea threatens to sue Papa John’s after pizza delivery boy ‘data breach’
CBC News reports: Iggy Azalea is threatening to sue American pizza chain Papa John’s after the rapper says a delivery boy gave her personal phone number to family and friends. The 24-year-old Fancy singer, who would have been getting ready for the Grammys at the time, shared a screen grab Sunday that appears to show one of “tons” of messages she received after…
Uber Apparently Left Part of Its Lost and Found Database Public
Jason Koebler reports: Someone named Angelica left a Patti Smith record in the back of her Uber on February 5th. I know this, and Angelica’s phone number, because Uber has left its internal lost-and-found records on a publicly accessible site. Read more on Motherboard. The Uber url that leaked the data is now 404.