A number of people have been posting comments or actually calling me about class action lawsuit settlements. This site reports news about lawsuits and settlements. Sometimes this site may show up in a Google search for those looking for information about a breach or class action lawsuit, but this site only reports news. This...
As seen on Twitter: #Conti Officially DisCONTInued Today the official website of Conti #Ransomware was shut down, marking the end of this notorious crime group; it is truly a historic day in the #intelligence community! Look forward to today’s @AdvIntel with extended [email protected]_Intel pic.twitter.com/gMSXhlHVSb — Yelisey Boguslavskiy (@y_advintel) May 19, 2022
Department of Justice Announces New Policy for Charging Cases under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The Department of Justice today announced the revision of its policy regarding charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged. Good faith security research means accessing a computer solely for purposes of good-faith testing, investigation, and/or correction of a...
As reported by TopClassActions, Solara Medical Supplies has agreed to a $9.76 million class action settlement benefiting those whose personal information may have been compromised during a 2019 data breach that occurred between April 2 and June 20, 2019. That would include employees and patients whose protected health information was in employee email accounts...
Prodraft writes: This report provides unprecedented visibility into the structure, background, and motivations of Wizard Spider. We’ve obtained command statistics, target country statistics, command execution patterns, and other information on the group’s tactics, techniques, and procedures. These include novel post-exploitation cracking solutions and psychological tactics. Download their report at Prodaft.
Stavros Atlamazoglou reports: … Russian hackers went after a variety of Ukrainian targets in the private and public sectors, but one cyber weapon aimed at a specific military target spilled over and affected tens of thousands of devices outside Ukraine. A few hours before the Russian invasion began on February 24, Russian hackers launched...
WTVG reports Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio has been hit by a cyberattack that has disrupted much of its communication avenues including phones, internet, email, wifi networks, and Google classroom. Read more at WTVG, although they are only in beginning stages of investigating and responding to the incident.
Approximately 43,000 patients of an immediate care facility and its associated primary care practice in Chicago may or may not know it yet, but threat actors gained access to protected health information in December and proceeded to remove more than 500 GB of files between December and May 10. Or so the threat actors...
DataBreaches.net has found two behavioral health entities that reportedly or allegedly experienced recent cyberattacks involving protected health information of patients. The first, Behavioral Health Partners of Metrowest (BHPMW), describes itself as a partnership that brings together leading social services and behavioral health agencies serving the Greater MetroWest region of Massachusetts. Together, they write, Family...
Rory McLaren reports: South Australia’s Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a cyber attack last year. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told parliament on Wednesday a “forensic review” by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) uncovered the additional people that had had their personal data stolen, in addition to the 80,000 employees...
Mark Young and Tomos Griffiths of Covington and Burling write: In the early hours of Friday, 13 May, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached provisional political agreement on a new framework EU cybersecurity law, known as “NIS2”. This new law, which will replace the existing NIS Directive (which was agreed around the...
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