Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report: Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, including cybersecurity firms entrusted to find malicious activity in their clients’ networks. Four cybersecurity companies announced this week that they had been targeted as…
Month: January 2021
Citrix Employees Secure $2.3 Million Settlement for Data Breach
Porter Wells reports: Citrix Systems Inc.’s $2.275 million settlement offer to a class of current and former employees whose data was compromised by hackers over a five-month period earned a Florida federal judge’s initial approval. Judge Ron K. Altman preliminarily approved the class’s unopposed motion to approve the settlement terms Tuesday for the U.S. District Court for the…
GA: Crisp Regional Health Services falls victim to ransomware attack
Kim McCullough and Bobby Poitevint report: Crisp Regional Health Services was recently the victim of a ransomware attack, which affected some of the systems and encrypted files, according to a release from the hospital. “Workflow was never compromised, patient care was never compromised,” said Brooke Marshall, the community relations and foundation director. Officials said they…
UKRI issues statement about ransomware attack
GC reports: The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has sustained a cyber attack adversely affecting several of its web assets, which has resulted in data being encrypted by a third party. After reporting the incident to the National Crime Agency, the National Cyber Security Centre and Information Commissioner’s Office, UKRI stated that at this point…
Florida Healthy Kids website breached; vendor blamed for not patching
What’s that feeling when you learn your web hosting vendor for the past 7 years had unpatched vulnerabilities that permitted thousands of individuals’ personal information to be accessed without authorization? Nausea? Disgust? Something else? Florida Healthy Kids Corporation posted a notice on their site about an incident that they attribute to Jelly Bean Communications Design. …
Data Breach Defense
David Oberly of Blank Rome writes: Today, data breaches continue to proliferate at a rapid pace, often spurring consumer class action litigation in their wake. Oftentimes, a successful data breach suit can empty a corporate defendant’s coffers. For example, Equifax was recently forced to shell out $575 million to settle a major data breach class…