CBS News reports: AT&T has agreed to pay $13 million to settle a federal investigation into whether the mobile phone service provider failed to protect customer information in connection with a data breach last year, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. The FCC’s probe focused on how AT&T’s privacy, cybersecurity and vendor management practices […]
Update of December 5: A federal judge granted early approval to a $30 million settlement. The case is In re 23andMe Inc Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 24-md-03098. The official settlement website will be at https://www.23andmedatasettlement.com/ where those affected can get information on who is eligible to […]
Some experts from negotiation firms offer their perspectives on the thorny question of whether to pay ransom. Business Insider reports: Cybercriminals stealing important data and holding it for ransom can be a company’s worst nightmare. Instances of ransomware, a type of malicious software that holds sensitive data hostage until a victim pays the attacker, are […]
Released: September 12, 2024 WASHINGTON – Today, as part of their public service announcement (PSA) series to put potential election day cyber related disruptions during the 2024 election cycle into context for the American people, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) jointly issued the Just So You Know: False Claims of Hacked Voter […]
A hacker claims to have stolen 440 GB of data from cybersecurity firm Fortinet, exploiting an Azure SharePoint vulnerability. The breach, dubbed “Fortileak,” was revealed on a forum with access credentials shared online. HackRead reports: Dubbed Fortileak by the hacker, the breach allegedly originates from an exposure in Fortinet’s Azure SharePoint instance. In the forum post, the […]
A blockbuster proposed settlement has been announced involving a ransomware attack last year. The ransomware attack by BlackCat resulted in 134,000 patients of Lehigh Valley Health Network having their data accessed, exfiltrated, and in some cases, leaked online. Distressingly, the threat actors cruelly leaked nude photos of identifiable cancer patients as part of the incident. […]
How many times have the government and intel firms warned us that decryptors provided by ransomware gangs do not always work and a significant percentage of victims wind up not recovering all their files even though they paid the ransom? Here’s another example from The Register, where an unnamed victim company paid the Hazard ransomware […]
Slim CD is a Florida-headquartered processing gateway that handles electronic payments, including credit card payments for US and Canadian based merchants. On or about June 15, 2024, it detected suspicious activity in its computer environment. SC Media reports that the firm, has notified nearly 1.7 million credit card holders that their data may have been […]
If you rented a car from Avis, you may be receiving a notification letter about an August data breach they experienced. Bleeping Computer explains: American car rental giant Avis notified customers that unknown attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole some of their personal information. According to data breach notification letters sent to […]
More than a year after other victims of the MOVEit hacking incident notified people, the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying people whose protected health information was acquired by the Clop gang: The MOVEit data breach may be long in the rear-view mirror, but […]
