It was a case that started in 2008 when Phillip and Tina Sherman sued a McDonald’s after nude photos on their phone were uploaded to the Internet after they accidentally left the phone at the restaurant. The Sherman’s had realized their error and called the restaurant, and the manager had allegedly assured them that the…
Category: Breaches
Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night (update 1)
A brief rift in the Facebook privacy shield has been healed, but not before dozens of people documented it. For about 30 minutes late Tuesday, private email addresses were revealed—and then, just as suddenly, they were hidden again. Read more on Gawker.com. Nothing on the Facebook blog as of the time of this posting to…
Computer repairer who stole clients’ photos jailed
A Kapiti Coast (NZ) computer repairer who took innocent family pictures from the computers of clients for his own use has been jailed for 2 1/2 years. Wellington District Court judge Bruce Davidson said yesterday there was a “disturbing and sinister complexion” to Ian Mead’s actions that made him recoil when shown samples by the…
Suspected Twitter infiltrator: ‘I’m a nice hacker’
Angela Doland reports: He’s unemployed and isn’t much of a computer expert. The Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the accounts of President Barack Obama and singers Britney Spears and Lily Allen says he wanted to reveal just how vulnerable online data systems are to break-ins – and he says he didn’t mean…