Legal News, News
December 14, 2023
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FCC Adopts Updated Data Breach Notification Rules To Protect Consumers

Commission to Expand Scope and Rule Requirements to Reflect Current Security Landscape WASHINGTON, December 13, 2023—The Federal Communications Commission today adopted rules to modify the Commission’s 16-year-old data breach notification rules to ensure that providers of telecommunications, interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and telecommunications relay services (TRS) adequately safeguard sensitive customer information.  Today’s action […]

Legal News, News
December 08, 2023
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FBI explains how companies can delay SEC cyber incident disclosures

The Record reports: The FBI has published guidance on how companies can request a delay in disclosing cyber incidents to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The document is a followup to new rules that the SEC approved in June requiring companies to quickly disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents and share the details of their cybersecurity risk management, […]

News, Critical Infrastructure, Data Breach News
December 05, 2023
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Britain says no evidence of Sellafield nuclear site hacking

Reuters reports:  Britain has no records or evidence to suggest that networks at the Sellafield nuclear site were the victim of a successful cyber attack by state actors, the government said on Monday following a report by the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian reported that Sellafield, which carries out nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste storage and […]

Data Breach News, New Threats, News, Vulnerabilities
December 05, 2023
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Russian state-sponsored hackers exploiting Outlook vulnerability, Microsoft warns

Cybernews reports: Microsoft is urging Outlook users to patch and update their systems to mitigate a new threat from Russia. Hackers associated with the Kremlin’s military intelligence agency GRU are exploiting the vulnerability to access victim’s emails. Microsoft warned that a nation-state actor tracked as Forest Blizzard is actively exploiting a vulnerability to provide secret, […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News
December 02, 2023
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Southwestern Ontario hospitals facing $480M class action after patient data breached, sold on dark web

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CTV reports: A group of southwestern Ontario hospitals is facing a potential $480-million class action lawsuit after at least 270,000 patients in the region had their data breached and reportedly sold by hackers on the dark web. The breach, first detected on Oct. 23, targeted Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace […]