A home security technician has pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into customers’ video feeds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Prerak Shah. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former ADT employee, pleaded guilty to computer fraud on Thursday before Magistrate Judge David Horan. “This defendant, entrusted with safeguarding customers’ homes, instead intruded on their…
Month: January 2021
PA: Einstein Healthcare Network Notifies Patients August Email Hack
The following is a press release that appears totally silent as to why it took from August, 2020, when the breach was discovered, until January, 2021 to disclose this breach. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Einstein Healthcare Network (“Einstein”) previously announced that it began mailing letters to patients whose information may have been involved in a data…
AU: Woolworths gave customer data to NSW Health
Casey Tonkin reports: Woolworths gave data about customers who use its Everyday Rewards scheme to NSW Health in order to assist contact tracers. At the outbreak of the recent Berala cluster linked to a BWS in Sydney’s west, Woolworths analysed information from its Everyday Rewards loyalty scheme to find customers who visited the store at times when…
Giant leak exposes data from almost all Brazilians
Leonard Manson reports: On Tuesday morning (19), the dfndr lab, PSafe’s cybersecurity laboratory, reported a huge leak in a Brazilian database that may have exposed the CPF number and other confidential information of millions of people. According to the experts, who use artificial intelligence techniques to identify malicious links and fake news, the leaked data…
An Overview of Cybersecurity Law in Taiwan
John Eastwood, Nathan Snyder, Wendy Chu, David Rosenthal and Lloyd G. Roberts III of Eiger write: 1. GOVERNING TEXTS In Taiwan, there are two main branches of legislation pertaining to information security: legislation on cybersecurity and legislation protecting personal data. While the information security aspects of personal data protection legislation (mainly the PDPA) only apply…
Vendor ransomware attack by Ryuk impacted 21 healthcare entities in 2019
A recent report headlining that 560 healthcare facilities were impacted by ransomware attacks in 2020 may have seemed shocking until you realize any one ransomware attack can impact multiple hospitals or clinics in a network (just think of the Universal Health Services incident where the Pennsylvania-based system took 400 facilities offline when they were attacked). …