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Class Action Suit Filed Against Capital One Over Breach

by Ray Schultz , July 31, 2019Capital One has been hit with a class action lawsuit over the breach exposing data on 106 million consumers in the U.S. and Canada. The alleged data thief, Paige A. Thompson, posted the purloined data on GitHub on April 21. The company was alerted to the problem on July 17, and determined that the breach had occurred on July 19. The class action complaint claims …


Ransomware’s Aftermath Can Be More Costly Than Ransom | Malware

Downtime caused by a ransomware attack can cost a company more than paying a ransom to recover data encrypted by the malware, according to a report released last week byIntermedia. Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of companies infected with ransomware could not access their data for at least two days because of the incident, and …