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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest

Security Affairs

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

Security Affairs

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The huge trove of data, called “ Vault 7 ,” exposed the hacking capabilities of the US Intelligence Agency and its internal infrastructure. District Judge Jesse M.

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Uber’s Response to Data Breach? Pay the Hackers to Keep Quiet About It: Cybersecurity Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber last year. Conceal the breach for more than a year, and pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data (sure they did) and keep quiet about the breach. The post Uber’s Response to Data Breach? Their response? driver’s license numbers.

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Draft Released in the Philippines Implementing Rules for the Data Privacy Act

Hunton Privacy

On June 17, 2016, the National Privacy Commission (the “Commission”) of the Philippines released draft guidelines entitled, Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“IRR”), for public consultation. The IRR defines personal data as personal information, sensitive information and privileged information.

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OCR Enters into Record Settlement with Anthem

Hunton Privacy

Anthem”) following Anthem’s 2015 data breach. That breach, affecting approximately 79 million individuals, was the largest breach of protected health information (“PHI”) in history. million, which OCR imposed in 2016 against Advocate Health Care Network. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. under the name Alexandru Florea , and the username “ Acidut.” io , and online[.]io.