PC Mag reports that a hacker has been trying to sell access to over 153 million driver’s licenses from the US and Canada, including the IDs for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an FBI assistant director: The hacker created a site called Nexus to offer the IDs, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who learned about […]
When you read the headline, you might hope it’s just a clickbait headline, but it may not be. The European reports that hackers could plunge Britain into darkness in less than two minutes by targeting the battery storage systems becoming increasingly critical to the stability of the electricity grid. A new analysis puts the chance […]
Investing.com reports that Dropbox Inc shares fell 1.8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that hackers breached thousands of user accounts and accessed data stored on the cloud-storage platform. At one point, shares had fallen as much as 6.6% in postmarket trading. According to Bloomberg: Some Dropbox users received an email from the company on […]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection and data-privacy laws following a data breach by one of the company’s experimental models this summer. In July, OpenAI released an experimental artificial intelligence model without proper safeguards that hacked into several computer […]
On August 25, Boston Scientific discovered a cybersecurity incident was affecting some information technology systems, resulting in a network outage and disruption to the medical device firm’s operations. The incident impacted access to certain operating systems and business applications, including the ability to process and ship customer orders. Since then, the firm has provided daily […]
“TeamPCP” has been arrested in Australia. The leader’s arrest had been widely anticipated across online channels and discussions, and the leader had even said he expected to be arrested and might just turn himself in. Now The Register reports: The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but […]
CyberInsider reports that ShinyHunters claims to have hit a major healthcare software provider, and that hundreds of millions of records have been acquired, although the number of unique patients is not yet determined. McKesson has acknowledged that it is investigating the claims. Read more at CyberInsider.
A reminder that the details of states’ data breach notification laws really do matter. A notification that may be satisfactory in most states may be noncompliant in another state and really cost the firm. From attorneys at BakerHostetler: One ruling is not a trend. And there can be unique factors at play in regulatory investigations […]
There has been another ruling that makes it harder for plaintiffs in data breach litigation to prove standing. As seen on JDSupra: Helpful guidance for businesses, and for Massachusetts state courts. In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held in TransUnion, LLC v. Ramirez that in a suit for damages, “the mere risk of future harm, without more, cannot […]
The Guardian reports: Hackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyber-attack that caused a British power plant to be temporarily shut down. The incident involved a small-scale energy generator, according to the UK government, which said that at no point was there a risk to the wider energy system. However, it marks an apparent escalation […]
