A hacker plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 FBI employees, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, and 200GB of files according to Motherboard. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-plans-to-dump-alleged-details-of-20000-fbi-9000-dhs-employees Pro-Palestinian comments on the hack, along with DHS employee info, were posted on Twitter according to Motherboard.
News broke overnight that contact details for more than 10,000 employees of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security was dumped onto the web Sunday and Monday by anonymous pro-Palestinian hackers. Although the breach was confirmed by a Department of Justice spokesperson, the severity of the hack is so far being played down, with the Departments saying that there is no evidence personal data like dates of birth or social security numbers were compromised.
London, Cirencester and Woking, UK: Rigby Private Equity (RPE) announces the opening of a new office in Vienna, Austria. Specialist value-added distributors Wick Hill and Zycko (both part of RPE) already have business in Austria and this move shows the commitment of both distributors and RPE to strengthen and grow activities in that territory.
London, UK: Global businesses are reevaluating their data privacy programs this year as new privacy regulations targeted at businesses take effect. The European General Data Protection Regulation is a new privacy regulation with fines as high as four percent of annual global revenue for companies that fail to safeguard data of EU citizens and residents. In the U.S. 16 states recently introduced new, ACLU supported data privacy legislation. In spite of efforts to improve privacy protections many enterprises are not doing enough to protect consumer data.
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