Optometry Group settles data breach case for 3.5M dollars
The National Board of Examiners in Optometry plans to allot $3.25 million in a cash settlement fund to compensate approximately 61,000 victims of an alleged data breach that hit the profession nearly three years ago, the website InvisionMag reports with reference to the American Optometric Association. The class action settlement also outlines steps NBEO will take to upgrade its data security practices. Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar of Maryland gave preliminary approval to the settlement on March 7.
Tesla sues former employees, Zoox for alleged trade secret theft
Tesla has filed a pair of lawsuits against a handful of former employees who went to work at self-driving vehicle startup Zoox and Chinese EV automaker Xiaopeng, The TechCrunch reports. The separate lawsuits filed late Wednesday allege former Tesla employees stole trade secrets and used them at their new places of employment. Tesla declined to comment on either lawsuit.
German firm appeals 4.5M dollars award in 11th circuit
An attorney for a German manufacturer accused of stealing a Georgia flooring company’s trade secrets asked an 11th Circuit panel Wednesday to reverse a judgment awarding the flooring company $4.5 million in damages, The Courthouse News Service reports.
800K blood donors' data exposed in Singapore leak
In yet another data leak, 808,201 blood donors in Singapore had their personal details exposed in January this year, after a Health Sciences Authority (HSA) database was placed on an Internet-facing server, the portal TechGoondu reports.
Hacker sells 26M user records on Dark Web
A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he's selling on a dark web marketplace, ZDNet reports.
Lawyer charged for exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
A former Australian military lawyer, once a captain in Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS), has been charged over the alleged leak of documents to journalists containing evidence of war crimes committed in Afghanistan by Australia’s Special Forces, the website wsws.org writes. David McBride, 55, appeared in the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates Court last Thursday, accused of leaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Fairfax Media reporters during 2014 to 2016.
Verifications.io breach: Database with 2 billion records leaked
Verifications.io breach is one of the largest data breaches but the good news is that it does not involve passwords, the HackRead reports. Another day, another data breach; this time the email validation service Verifications.io has leaked a humongous database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 2 billion individuals around the world.
India mulls prosecuting The Hindu newspaper over Rafale docs
India’s Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the Supreme Court on Wednesday it may file a criminal case against The Hindu newspaper under India’s Official Secrets Act for publishing “stolen” government documents about a deal to buy 36 Rafale jets from France, The Reuters reports.
ALDI sues Lidl: cutthroat competition heads to court
In a federal lawsuit filed Friday against Lidl and the two former ALDI employees, ALDI accuses the employees of conspiring to steal ALDI’s proprietary expansion plans in order to share them with their new employer, Lidl – giving Lidl an unfair, illegal advantage as it tries to gain a foothold in the U.S. and make inroads against ALDI, the website Coupons in the News reports.
Over 300M Chinese private messages were left exposed online
Over 300 million private messages from Chinese users on popular messaging apps were sitting exposed on the internet on Saturday, according to security researcher Victor Gevers, who works for the nonprofit organization GDI. The database of 364 million records left users’ personal identities searchable to anyone who found the IP address, as reported by the Financial Time, The Verge writes.
