Hackers May Have Had Access to Billions of Texts for Years, Global Telecom...
Katherine Fung reports: A global telecommunications company has admitted that hackers may have had access to billions of text messages from potentially millions of cellphone users for years. Syniverse,...
View ArticleEnglish High Court Clarifies Appropriate Causes of Action in Data Claim Where...
Steven Baker, Vishnu V. Shankar, and Julia Bihary of Proskauer write: In the recent and significant Warren v DSG Retail Ltd [2021] EWHC 2168 (QB) decision the High Court in England clarified the...
View ArticleData Hack Hits Alumni of Harvard-Westlake Private School
Gary Baum reports: Students’ confidential academic files were hacked and exposed at Los Angeles private school Harvard-Westlake. Archived SAT scores, GPAs, transcripts and college recommendation...
View ArticleNJ: Acting AG Bruck Announces Settlement with Fertility Clinic over...
There’s an update to a 2017 breach affecting patients of Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause. At the time, they reported a hack of a third-party server that impacted more than 14,000...
View ArticleWilliamsville School employees’ private health data inadvertently leaked by...
WGRZ reports: Independent Health said Friday that the names, member ID numbers and medical information for over 500 Williamsville School District employees were accidentally released to stop loss...
View ArticlePopular student monitoring software could have exposed thousands to hacks
Mark Keierleber reports: A monitoring company that thousands of schools used during remote and hybrid learning to ensure students were on task may have inadvertently exposed millions of kids to hackers...
View ArticleDOJ Announces New Cyber-Fraud Initiative Promoting False Claims Act...
Anthony Mirenda, Stephen Garvey, and Natalie Panariello of Foley Hoag write: As we anticipated last spring, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has signaled that it will utilize civil enforcement of the...
View ArticleEmail breach at vendor to alliance of dental practices impacts numerous...
For the second time in the past year, an alliance serving dental practices has been hit with a cyberattack. Last year’s attack impacted patients at Kids First Dentistry & Orthodontics, a...
View ArticleFullerton Health vendor’s server hacked; personal details of customers sold...
David Sun reports: Personal details of Fullerton Health customers were stolen by hackers and hawked online, after a vendor of the private healthcare group suffered a breach earlier this month. The data...
View ArticleNearly 30K former and current CU Boulder students’ personal information hacked
Alex Rose reports: The University of Colorado Boulder is sending emails to roughly 30,000 former and current students that have been impacted by a data breach, according to a release from the...
View ArticleOver 400,000 German Students Data Leaked by a Flawed API
Manikanta Immann reports: Scoolio is a german app for students, used mainly for educational updates, record keeping, and networking. After informing the flaw to Scoolio’s developer, a fix was released...
View ArticleCustomers Can Pursue Negligence Claims Directly Against Vendor (Blackbaud)
David Kessler and Susan Ross write: On October 19, 2021, a federal trial court in South Carolina ruled that a group of consumers could proceed with common law negligence and gross negligence claims...
View ArticleMerced County School District vendor reports a burglary that compromised...
The Foundation for Medical Care of Merced County previously provided third party administration services for the Merced County School District’s medical and dental plans. The foundation currently...
View ArticleTN: Professional Healthcare Management discloses ransomware incident
PHM’s press release, followed by this site’s comments/notes: MEMPHIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Professional Healthcare Management, Inc. (“PHM”)1, located in Memphis, Tennessee, announced today that it recently...
View ArticleUK: Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen
John Leonard reports: The Labour Party has suffered a ‘cyber incident’ with personal details of members stolen from an unnamed third-party company that handles its membership data. In a statement the...
View ArticleN.L. patient, employee data stolen in health-care cyberattack
Alex Kennedy reports: Hackers stole personal information connected to both patients and employees in the Eastern Health and Labrador-Grenfell Health regions of Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care...
View ArticleData of 5.9m customers of RedDoorz hotel booking site leaked in Singapore’s...
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of nearly 5.9 million Singaporean and South-east Asian customers of hotel booking site RedDoorz was found to have been leaked, in what the Government has called...
View ArticlePolish DPA: Bank Millennium fined 80,000 EUR for failure to notify the breach...
22 November 2021 Background information Date of final decision: 14 October 2021 Cross-border case or national case: National case Controller: Bank Millennium S.A. Legal Reference: Notification of a...
View ArticleVendors and HIPAA
Matt Fisher of Carium writes: An important part of establishing strong security for an organization rests with how it interacts with its vendors. The creation of a chain of entities creating,...
View ArticleRansomwared payroll provider leaks data on 38,000 Australian government workers
Simon Sharwood reports: Personal information describing names, addresses, bank account details, and taxation IDs of 38,000 Australian government employees has been leaked to the dark web after a...
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