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Education Giant Pearson Fined $1M for Downplaying Data Breach The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Pearson, a British multinational educational publishing and services company, has settled charges of mishandling the disclosure process for a 2018 data breach discovered in March 2019. Pearson agreed to pay a $1 million civil money penalty
Secret Terrorist Watchlist With 2 Million Records Exposed Online A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified “no-fly” records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Millions of people on no-fly and terror watchlists exposed In July this year, Security Discovery researcher Bob Diachenko came across a
SIM Swap Scammer Pleads Guilty to Instagram Account Hijacks, Crypto Theft Declan Harrington, a Massachusetts man charged two years ago for his alleged involvement in a series of SIM swapping attacks, pleaded guilty to stealing cryptocurrency from multiple victims and hijacking the Instagram account of others. SIM swapping (aka SIM hijacking) attacks make it possible for
Lessons from PDPC Incident and Undertaking: August 2021 Cases The latest decisions for the month of August of the Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) has been published on their official website. Tasked with the administration and enforcement of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), the PDPC aims to balance the protection of individuals’ personal data