Well, it’s taken over a year for a follow-up, but the case of hacking/invasion of privacy/extortion claims by Shaquille O’Neal against a former employee has now been formalized in a lawsuit. Marimer Matos of Courthouse News has the story: Shaquille O’Neal claims a computer tech he hired, who hid his criminal past, stole his private…
Category: Breaches
Has Carbonite had a privacy breach? I’m getting spam.
Richi Jennings writes what happened when he started getting spam at a tagged email address he had given only to Carbonite: The company responded with a dry drawer statement: Carbonite has discovered an advertiser misappropriated our e-mail list during the process of one of our e-mail marketing campaigns. When Carbonite launches an e-mail marketing campaign,…
Alabama sheriff seeks to block GoDaddy from publishing any data dumps from AntiSec/Anonymous
As readers of my blogs know, a bunch of law enforcement agencies found their employees’ personal information dumped on the web by anonymous hackers who are unhappy with law enforcement for political reasons such as the Occupy demonstrations or immigration laws. Now an Alabama sheriff is seeking a court order that would block GoDaddy from…
Dumb security, Monday edition: Want to read Newsday as an Optimum Online customer? You’ll have to turn over your Cablevision password.
Color me stunned. As an Optimum Online subscriber, I’m supposed to get free online access to Newsday, one of the largest newspapers in New York. So I went to sign up on Newsday’s site. And that’s when my eyes popped out of my head. Not only does Newsday’s sign-up form ask you for your Optimum ID…