Julia Weng reports: Hiscox Insurance Co. Inc. can move forward with claims against Warden Grier LLP, which lost a bid to dismiss allegations that fault the law firm’s handling of a hack that exposed the insurer’s data. Read more on Bloomberg. As reported on DataBreaches.net in 2018, thedarkoverlord (“TDO”) had started leaking what they...
For the past few months, I waited for Vinny Troia of Night Lion Security to publish a report he prepared that would contain proof to support his claims that certain named individuals were members of thedarkoverlord. In the last few weeks, Troia expanded his claims to assert that he had also identified members of...
There’s a small update in the proceedings involving Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” the U.K. national who has been charged in the Eastern District of Missouri for his alleged role in hacks and extortion attempts by thedarkoverlord (TDO). Wyatt had been charged in a sealed indictment back in 2017, and was arrested in the...
For the past few years, this site has covered litigation against Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia related to their hack by thedarkoverlord in 2016. The lawsuit against the clinic, filed by a patient, made it all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether under Georgia state law, the plaintiff...
DataBreaches.net continues to monitor the court docket in the case of Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” an alleged member of thedarkoverlord. As I’ve reported previously, Wyatt, a U.K. citizen who was extradited to the U.S. to stand trial here, is not charged with actually hacking any of the victim entities in a case filed...