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The AB Data Settlement Administrator Behind Billions in Class Action Payouts — And Why Most Americans Never Claim Their Share
Seen on The Creative Learning Guild: Some of the biggest consumer payout operations in the US are discreetly managed by a relatively small group of legal and technology experts in a building on A.B. Data Drive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is somewhat surprisingly named after the company itself. The majority of people will never go there. The majority of […]
Act-of-War Clauses Cloud Cyber Insurance Coverage
Does it matter whether President Trump calls the situation with Iran a “war” or an “excursion” or something else if your company is hit by a cyberattack that may be in retaliation? The Wall Street Journal reports: From Europe to the Middle East, geopolitical conflicts have companies rereading the fine print on insurance policies that […]
Two patient data breaches in the first quarter of 2026: Valley Family Health Care’s Challenging Year
DataBreaches.net reports: On January 12, Valley Family Health Care (VFHC) notified HHS after learning that the TriZetto Provider Solutions (TPS) breach had affected 4,300 of their patients. The TPS breach, which began in November 2024, involved their patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance member numbers (including Medicare beneficiary identifiers), health insurer names, […]
Ambulances diverted after cyberattack hits Brockton Hospital
A cybersecurity incident knocked out key systems, canceling chemotherapy appointments, closing pharmacies and pushing Brockton Hospital to divert ambulances while staff switch to paper records MassLive reports: Brockton Hospital is diverting ambulances and canceling some services as it responds to a cybersecurity incident that began impacting its information systems on Monday. Chemotherapy infusion services for […]
Jones Day confirms cyber attack after Silent Ransom Group acquired clients’ files
Legal Cheek reports: Jones Day has become the latest high-profile law firm to fall victim to a cyber attack, after hackers accessed files linked to a number of client matters. The US firm — which represented Donald Trump in both his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and has placed several of its lawyers into senior White […]
Wynn Resorts notified 21,775 people of data breach that claimed 800k records
There is an update to the Wynn Resorts data breach previously reported in February. At the time, ShinyHunters claimed to have exfiltrated 800,000 records containing customer and employee data, and they threatened to leak the data if Wynn Resorts didn’t pay the ransom demand. Now Cybernews reports that a Wynn Resorts notification to the Maine […]
The professional negotiators who do deals with cyber criminals
Financial Times reports: A global surge in ransomware attacks has driven the rise of specialist negotiators who are skilled at buying time, gathering intelligence and cutting deals with hackers. Professional ransom negotiators have become a booming part of the cyber security industry as businesses seek help for high-stake talks with criminal gangs. Large cyber security […]
Hacker attacks jump as regional tensions explode
GDN Online reports: Cyber-attacks targeting Bahrain and its Gulf neighbours have skyrocketed eight-fold this month in the wake of the joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran, security experts have warned. Hacktivists aligned with Tehran have dramatically ramped up Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) strikes across the Middle East, capitalising on the chaos of the widening […]