There’s been a state enforcement action against National Public Data, but it’s not for the data breach that resulted in the leak of 2.9 billion records. It’s for failure to register with California as a data broker. News: February 20, 2025 SACRAMENTO — The Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has brought…
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HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $1,500,000 Civil Money Penalty Against Warby Parker in HIPAA Cybersecurity Hacking Investigation
There is a follow-up to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net in December 2018. February 20 — Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $1,500,000 civil money penalty against Warby Parker, Inc., a manufacturer and online retailer of prescription and non-prescription eyewear, concerning violations of…
Hackers Claim Data Breach at Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court
Novinite reports: The Ransomhouse hacker group has claimed responsibility for stealing data from the Supreme Administrative Court’s information systems. The group published documents, including lists of employee names, personal data, and leave applications, as evidence of the breach, according to cybersecurity website Questona. Along with the leaked documents, the hackers addressed the court’s management with a message urging them to make contact….
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Thursday edition: DM Clinical Research
Another day, another massive leak. Researcher Jeremiah Fowler reports that he found unsecured data with 1,674,218 records belonging to DM Clinical Research. DM Clinical Research is a Texas-based network of more than 24 multi-therapeutic clinical trial sites involved in research on vaccines, internal medicine, pediatrics, gastroenterology, psychiatry, neurology, women’s health, and more. DM Clinical Research’s…
Meet NailaoLocker: a ransomware distributed in Europe by ShadowPad and PlugX backdoors
Marine Pichon and Alexis Bonnefoi of Orange Cyberdefense report: Last year, Orange Cyberdefense’s CERT investigated a series of incidents from an unknown threat actor leveraging both ShadowPad and PlugX. Tracked as Green Nailao (“Nailao” meaning “cheese” in Chinese – a topic our World Watch CTI team holds in high regard), the campaign impacted several European organizations, including in the healthcare vertical, during…
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger
Dan Black of Google’s Threat Intelligence Group writes: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia’s intelligence services. While this emerging operational interest has likely been sparked by wartime demands to gain access to sensitive government…