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Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of 4.7 million people with Google for years
Blue Shield of California joined the ranks of entities that discovered they were unlawfully sending personal or protected health information of website visitors to advertisers via tracking pixels embedded on their sites. TechCrunch reports: Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday […]
Millions of KIA cars at serious risk of being hacked – they only need to know the car’s license plate number to open and start the car
All it took was knowing the license plate, and millions of KIA cars could be hacked in a matter of seconds. Unión Rayo reports that ethical researchers Sam Curry and Neiko Rivera found the vulnerability. It all starts with the portal Kia offers so users can connect their smartphones to the car. From there, they […]
Operators of New Jersey Company Sentenced to Prison and Enter into Related Civil Settlement Agreement for Roles in $127 Million Health Care Fraud and Kickback Scheme
Two operators of a New Jersey marketing company were sentenced to prison for their roles in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and receive illegal kickbacks Two operators of a New Jersey marketing company were sentenced to prison for their roles in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and […]
Cyberattack Knocks Texas City’s Systems Offline
Security Week reports that The city of Abilene, Texas, has been working on restoring systems that were taken offline to contain a cyberattack: The assault started on April 18, when some of the systems in the city’s internal network were reported as unresponsive, and prompted the immediate activation of the incident response plan. To secure […]
Conduent warns January breach impacted a ‘significant’ number of people
In January, Conduent reported that it had experienced an operational disruption due to a third-party compromise of one of its operating systems. They no longer refer to the incident as an “outage” and now refer to it as a “cyberattack,” but they still fail to clearly disclose whether this was a ransomware attack or not. Cybersecurity […]
Florida Bar Urges Law Firms to Adopt Incident Response Plans: A Call to Action for Legal Professionals
From Jackson Lewis: In late March 2025, the Florida Bar Board of Governors unanimously endorsed the recommendation of its Special Committee on Cybersecurity and Privacy Law that law firms should adopt written incident response plans (IRPs) to better prepare for and respond to data security incidents. The recommendation reflects a growing recognition across professional service industries—particularly law […]
$6.5M Navvis, SSM Health ransomware data breach class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports: Navvis and SSM Health have agreed to a $6.5 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that they failed to prevent a 2023 data breach that compromised sensitive patient information. The SSM Health settlement benefits anyone whose private information was compromised in the Navvis and SSM Health data breach between […]
Beware, hackers can apparently now send phishing emails from “no-reply@google.com”
TechRadar reports: Researchers have discovered a clever and elaborate phishing scheme that abused Google’s services to trick people into giving away their credentials for the platform. Lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service, Nick Johnson, recently received an email that seemed to have come from no-reply@google.com. The email said that law enforcement subpoenaed Google for content found in […]