Data breach or legal news about data protection and data breaches in the EU.
The Record reports on what appears to be another CitrixBleed incident: CTS, a managed service provider (MSP) for law firms in the United Kingdom, is “urgently investigating” a cyberattack that has disrupted its services — potentially leaving hundreds of British law firms unable to access their case management systems. The company announced Friday that it was “experiencing […]
This time it was Denmark. Who might be next? Bank InfoSecurity reports: Hackers potentially linked to the Russian GRU Main Intelligence Directorate carried out a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks targeting Danish critical infrastructure in the nation’s largest cyber incident on record, according to a new report. SektorCERT, a nonprofit cybersecurity center for critical sectors […]
PA Media reports that Equifax UK was fined over a breach at the firm’s U.S. owner, Equifax, Inc. The UK’s financial watchdog has fined Equifax £11 million for its role in one of the largest cyber attacks, which affected more than 13 million British consumers in 2017. The credit rating giant failed to keep its […]
U.S. officials said Tuesday that the FBI and its European partners infiltrated and seized control of a major global malware network used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely removed the malicious software agent — known as Qakbot — from thousands of infected […]
A UK-based Retail Management and EPOS Solutions provider called Swan Retail was the victim of a cyberattack that has significantly disrupted about 300 retail companies. The type of attack was not disclosed. Read more of this article by DEEBA AHMED at Hackread.com.
