Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is notifying more than 3.4 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a December 2023 data breach. Security Week reports: According to the firm, it discovered the incident after detecting suspicious activity on its network. Its investigation revealed that a threat actor accessed certain […]
The Cl0p gang that previously successfully attacked file transfer software platforms by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities is now starting to leak data from yet another campaign targeting file transfer software. This time, it’s CLEO. Cybersecurity Dive reports: Blue Yonder said it is investigating a threat after Clop listed the supply chain management company among nearly 60 […]
Proposed order will prohibit GoDaddy from misleading customers about its security protections and require it to establish a robust information security program The following is a press release from the Federal Trade Commission:
Details from more than 15,000 devices exposed If you use Fortinet, Computing.co.uk has information that you need to know: Hackers calling themselves Belsen Group have leaked details of users of Fortinet firewalls on the dark web. Researcher Kevin Beaumont, who has reviewed the data dump, says he believes it to be genuine, since devices in […]
Governments have routinely urged ransomware victims not to pay ransom demands, as it only encourages them to attack even more victims. Now the UK government may prohibit government and public sector entities from paying. LBC reports: Security minister Dan Jarvis told LBC: “We want these cyber criminals who operate from Russia and elsewhere to look […]
WSJ reports: Two brokerage units of Robinhood Markets agreed to pay $45 million to settle an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into a range of alleged violations, including one stemming from a 2021 data breach that exposed millions of customer names and emails. The settlement is the latest in a string of big […]
As previously reported, a hacker claimed to have acquired a massive amount of data from Gravy Analytics. A sample of the data, confirmed by 404Media, was posted on a Russian-language forum by a user called “Nightly,” with a threat that if payment was not made, all of the data would be leaked. That post was […]
Joseph Lazzarotti of the Jackson Lewis law firm has some helpful advice for schools affected by the PowerSchool breach. Here are a few snippets: State breach notification laws generally place the obligation to notify affected persons and others on the owner of the personal information compromised in the breach, not the service provider that had […]
The Associated Press reports: Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country’s national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling on government agencies and businesses to reinforce preventive measures. The National Police Agency said its analysis on the […]
24 hours. That’s the gap between PowerSchool’s disclosure of a hacking incident affecting teacher and student data and the filing of the first potential class-action lawsuit. Bloomberg Law reports on three potential class-action lawsuits that were filed on January 8th and 9th against the provider of cloud-based education software for K-12 schools: The complaints bring […]
