First take the log out of your own eye
Tuesday, Nov 28, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller
* AP…
Uber Technologies is being sued by the city of Chicago and Cook County on claims the ride-hailing company’s 2016 data breach harmed “tens, if not hundreds, of thousands” of area residents.
Last week, Uber revealed hackers were able to steal data for 57 million riders and drivers. With the announcement, San Francisco-based Uber said it concealed the breach for a year after paying $100,000 in ransom for the stolen information to be destroyed.
The lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court contends Uber’s failure to protect consumers’ personal information violated city and state laws.
The city and county are seeking a $10,000 fine “for each violation involving a Chicago resident.”
* From August 17th…
A voting machine company exposed 1.8 million Chicago voter records after misconfiguring a security setting on the server that stored them.
Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the Nebraska-based voting software and election management company, confirmed the leak on Thursday.
In a blog post, the company said the voter data leak contained names, addresses, birthdates, partial social security numbers and some driver’s license and state ID numbers stored in backup files on a server. Authorities alerted ES&S to the leak on Aug. 12, and the data was secured. […]
Amazon buckets — where data is stored — are private by default. This means someone at ES&S misconfigured a security setting and exposed the data online.
“This data would be an identity thief’s dream to find,” Vickery told CNN Tech. He also said the leaked files contained some voting system administration credentials.
* October 23rd…
“It’s like hitting a hole in one on the first time you play golf,” [John Hendren, a marketing representative for IT security firm UpGuard] says.
Chris Vickery at the same company says the breach rates at 10 on a severity scale of 1 to 10.
“Anyone with a web browser and an internet connection, anywhere in the entire world, could have downloaded these files,” he says.
Chicago’s vendor is ES&S, out of Omaha, Nebraska. The company has been paid more than $5 million since 2014 by the Chicago Board of Elections.
Headlined explained here.
- NoGifts - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 7:29 am:
Why are they only suing uber? This could be a whole new profit center for the city. Pick any data breach lately (think Equifax) and there are probably millions of Chicago residents on the list. Millions because many people’s data has been breached on multiple occasions.
- NoGifts - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 7:38 am:
This smells more threatening than consumer protection-y. So the “victims” get anything out of it?
- Thomas Paine - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 7:57 am:
Rich:
Matthew 7:5 is getting a lot of play this year.
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 8:13 am:
That was my first thought, NoGifts. Will the actual victims of these breaches be protected and/or reimbursed for any monetary damages done, or are they just the means to an end for the city and county to bolster their own coffers?
- cdog - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 8:38 am:
Good point, and I could study Matthew 7, everyday, for the rest of my entire life.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 9:19 am:
Looks like Emanuel and Foxx are fishing in the courts for a monetary score for their own budgets.
There are already consumer suits out there looking to get rolled up into a class action.
- Nortorious RBG - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 10:03 am:
Maybe they’re planning to use the cash to settle some of their own expected suits…
- ITK - Tuesday, Nov 28, 17 @ 11:55 am:
Glad to see this rank hypocrisy pointed out.