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T-Mobile customers to get payments up to $25K next month after data breach: Here’s who qualifies
The Hill reports: The $350 million T-Mobile agreed to pay in a 2022 class action settlement will finally start going out to customers next month. The class action lawsuit came after a cyberattack in August 2021 compromised the personal data of 76 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. The data that was breached included customers’ […]
Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches breach risk self-assessment tool for organizations that experience a breach
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced an online tool to help businesses and federal institutions that experience a privacy breach to assess whether the breach is likely to create a real risk of significant harm to individuals:
Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
They publicly denied, denied, denied having a breach of Oracle Cloud after someone put data up for sale, but while Oracle was publicly denying any breach, their customers and researchers were confirming that there had been one. Now we learn that Oracle Health had been telling some hospitals and healthcare clients that there had been […]
Global Healthcare Faces Unprecedented Cybersecurity Crisis: Top 10 Countries at Highest Risk
Black Book Market Research unveiled results from its comprehensive Q1 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 1,200 healthcare administrators. The 2025 Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Risk ranking identified the United States, India, Brazil, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico as the 10 countries facing the greatest cybersecurity threats. Leading the list, the […]
$6.8M Rite Aid data breach class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports: Rite Aid agreed to a $6.8 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised customer information. The settlement benefits consumers whose personal information was compromised in the Rite Aid data breach on June 6, 2024. According to the lawsuit, Rite Aid […]
British company Advanced fined £3m by privacy regulator over ransomware attack
The Record reports: Advanced, a business that provides IT services to numerous healthcare providers in the United Kingdom, has been fined £3.1 million (about $4 million) by the country’s privacy regulator over a ransomware attack in 2022. The company had initially faced a fine of £6 million before coming to a voluntary settlement with the Information Commissioner’s […]
UK warns of emerging threat from ‘sadistic’ online ‘Com networks’ of teenage boys
The Record reports: Online networks of teenage boys “dedicated to inflicting harm and committing a range of criminality” are among the most significant concerns for British law enforcement, officials announced this week. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is warning of a “new generation of young, English-speaking cyber criminals” who are “predominantly teenage boys that often […]
‘Malicious actor’ downloaded private information about Health NZ staff
Radio New Zealand reports that a “malicious actor” accessed and downloaded private information about staff in districts in the lower North Island,” according to Health NZ: In a message that has gone out to staff today, the agency said it had reported the incident to police and would be publishing a “public privacy notification” for staff at […]