Help at Home must face core negligence claims over patient data breach
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract
May 28, 2026
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract
Consumer Affairs reports: Krispy Kreme customers affected by a 2024 data breach may now be eligible for compensation under a
The Record reports: Two men are facing years in prison for providing services to a tech-support fraud scheme in India
From Dutch police news: On May 19 and 20, the criminal VPN service First VPN was taken offline in an
A client alert from Womble Bond Dickinson (US) discusses what it describes as a first-of-its-kind ruling: a California court did
Miscellaneous News
DysruptionHub reports: A cybersecurity event has disrupted calibration systems at Des Moines, Iowa-based Intoxalock since March 14, leaving some court-ordered
The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
You’ve trained your employees well to avoid falling for phishing or social engineering attempts. Have you trained them on what to do when someone shows up who appears to be from your firm’s IT support? The Record reports: A cyber extortion group linked to the now-defunct Conti ransomware syndicate is increasingly targeting U.S. law firms through a mix of phishing, fake IT support calls, and even in-person visits to steal sensitive data, according to a new FBI warning. In a public
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised in the incident. A message on the company website states more than 131,000 people in Rhode Island are impacted. NBC 10 News has learned the number includes thousands of state workers. Files that were hacked included Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, and health information, according to the company. According to the message on its website, and a letter shown to NBC
Technology.org reports: The group behind it, a fast-rising crew called TeamPCP, says it reached roughly 4,000 of GitHub’s code repositories. GitHub confirmed the breach Tuesday night and counted at least 3,800 compromised repositories, all of them holding GitHub’s own code rather than customer data, according to what it has found so far. For years, supply chain attacks were the rare horror story of security work. One corrupted application could quietly become an attacker’s doorway into an entire network. TeamPCP turned
TechCrunch reports: New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people. NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States and provides healthcare to over a million New Yorkers, the majority of whom are uninsured or receive state healthcare benefits, such as Medicaid. The healthcare system reported the number to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
When the federal agency that directs organizations and agencies to quickly attend to vulnerabilities and breaches has its own breach, people notice. Brian Krebs reports: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the
A press release from Carnival Corporation: Read more of the press release. Carnival has already been sued over the incident.
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract
Consumer Affairs reports: Krispy Kreme customers affected by a 2024 data breach may now be eligible for compensation under a
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised
Does it matter whether President Trump calls the situation with Iran a “war” or an “excursion” or something else if
When the federal agency that directs organizations and agencies to quickly attend to vulnerabilities and breaches has its own breach,
You’ve trained your employees well to avoid falling for phishing or social engineering attempts. Have you trained them on what to do when someone shows up who appears to be from your firm’s IT support? The Record reports: A cyber extortion group linked to the now-defunct Conti ransomware syndicate is increasingly targeting U.S. law firms through a mix of phishing, fake IT support calls, and even in-person visits to steal sensitive data, according to a new FBI warning. In a public
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised in the incident. A message on the company website states more than 131,000 people in Rhode Island are impacted. NBC 10 News has learned the number includes thousands of state workers. Files that were hacked included Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, and health information, according to the company. According to the message on its website, and a letter shown to NBC
Technology.org reports: The group behind it, a fast-rising crew called TeamPCP, says it reached roughly 4,000 of GitHub’s code repositories. GitHub confirmed the breach Tuesday night and counted at least 3,800 compromised repositories, all of them holding GitHub’s own code rather than customer data, according to what it has found so far. For years, supply chain attacks were the rare horror story of security work. One corrupted application could quietly become an attacker’s doorway into an entire network. TeamPCP turned
TechCrunch reports: New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people. NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States and provides healthcare to over a million New Yorkers, the majority of whom are uninsured or receive state healthcare benefits, such as Medicaid. The healthcare system reported the number to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract
Consumer Affairs reports: Krispy Kreme customers affected by a 2024 data breach may now be eligible for compensation under a
The Record reports: Two men are facing years in prison for providing services to a tech-support fraud scheme in India
From Dutch police news: On May 19 and 20, the criminal VPN service First VPN was taken offline in an
A client alert from Womble Bond Dickinson (US) discusses what it describes as a first-of-its-kind ruling: a California court did
Miscellaneous News
DysruptionHub reports: A cybersecurity event has disrupted calibration systems at Des Moines, Iowa-based Intoxalock since March 14, leaving some court-ordered
The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
A press release from Carnival Corporation: Read more of the press release. Carnival has already been sued over the incident.
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract
Consumer Affairs reports: Krispy Kreme customers affected by a 2024 data breach may now be eligible for compensation under a
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised
Does it matter whether President Trump calls the situation with Iran a “war” or an “excursion” or something else if
When the federal agency that directs organizations and agencies to quickly attend to vulnerabilities and breaches has its own breach,