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The City of Philadelphia says personal, health, and financial information was stolen in a cyberattack on its email environment.
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The personal information of students, applicants, alumni, and employees compromised in University of Michigan data breach.
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Hackers access the personal information of Casio customers after compromising the server for an education web application.
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The District of Columbia Board of Elections says full voter roll compromised in a recent data breach at hosting provider DataNet.
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Okta warns that hackers broke into its support case management system and stole sensitive data that can be used to impersonate valid users.
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Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Okta says the incident affected a “very small number” of customers, however it appears the hackers responsible had access to Okta’s support platform for at least two weeks before the company fully contained the intrusion.
Summary of notable cybersecurity news stories that may be top headlines, but are important for the week of October 16, 2023.
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Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction.
Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident from the FTC even as its investigators were scrutinizing the company’s data security and privacy practices. The government argued that Sullivan should have informed the FTC of the 2016 incident, but instead went out of his way to conceal it from them.
Prosecutors also accused Sullivan of attempting to conceal the breach itself by paying $100,000 to buy the silence of the two hackers behind the compromise. Sullivan had characterized the payment as a bug bounty similar to ones that other companies routinely make to researchers who report vulnerabilities and other security issues to them. His lawyers pointed out that Sullivan had made the payment with the full knowledge and blessing of Travis Kalanick, Uber’s CEO at the time, and other members of the ride-sharing giant’s legal team…
Finland charged a hacker, accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients, with over 21,000 counts of extortion.
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The Australian federal government aims to deliver changes to privacy laws in 2024. Organisations are being warned to prepare ahead of time by creating a comprehensive map of organisational data.