In many potential class action lawsuits stemming from a data breach, none of the named plaintiffs may have experienced any concrete injury such as identity theft or fraud that could plausibly linked to the breach. Here’s a lawsuit where’s the plaintiffs report concrete injury. Whether they will be able to link it to the particular…
Author: Dissent
Social Security numbers, other data may have been stolen breaches at Lansing Community College and D’Youville University
Mike Ellis reports: More than three-quarters of a million people may have had their social security numbers stolen in a data breach at Lansing Community College in late 2022 and early 2023, according to a law firm that says it’s investigating the incident. The community college notified “757,832 employees, students and vendors that their personal…
Trinidad and Tobago facing outages after cyberattack
Jonathan Greig reports: Trinidad and Tobago’s justice department is dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted the ministry’s operations. The island nation of more than 1.4 million people announced on Friday that its Ministry of Digital Transformation discovered a cyberattack targeting the country’s Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA) in…
HCA Healthcare releases statement while hacker puts data up for sale on deep web (update1)
On July 5, while some folks were cleaning up from fireworks and barbecues, DataBreaches broke the news that HCA Healthcare data was up for sale on a deep web forum if the company didn’t meet some unspecified demands. Since that time, DataBreaches has remained in some contact with the seller, who has occasionally provided additional…
Scoop: Razer hacker tells DataBreaches he’s making no attempt to extort Razer
On July 8, DataBreaches broke the news that what appeared to be intellectual property from Razer had been listed for sale on a popular hacking forum. When DataBreaches contacted Razer on Saturday to find out if they were aware of the listing and had any comment, a spokesperson responded that they were aware of a…
It: Luigi Vanvitelli hospital hit by ransomware
On July 4, the Luigi Vanvitelli hospital in Italy posted a notice on its homepage that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack on July 1 and was investigating it. There has been no update since then. Italy24 reports, in part: Apparently, cybercriminals have stolen the e-mail passwords of university professors, doctors,…