Reuters reports: Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees…
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Oakland remains behind an 8-ball in responding to ransomware attack
Sarah Ravani reports: Oakland’s police union filed a claim against the city after a ransomware attack released personal information for thousands of current and former city employees, union officials said Monday. The legal filing, which asks for monetary damages of up to $25,000 per affected employee, argues that the city failed to implement “reasonable, industry-standard…
Hackers leak 16,000 Tas documents on dark web
The Fortra/GoAnywhere incident also affected Tasmanian school children. Emily Woods reports: Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their…
Money Message ransomware gang claims MSI breach, demands $4 million
Bill Toulas reports: Taiwanese PC parts maker MSI (Micro-Star International) has been listed on the extortion portal of a new ransomware gang known as “Money Message,” which claims to have stolen source code from the company’s network. MSI is a global hardware giant that makes motherboards, graphics cards, desktops, laptops, servers, industrial systems, PC peripherals,…
NuLife Med settles class action lawsuit over March 2022 data breach
Top Class Actions reports that NuLife Med LLC has agreed to settle claims it failed to protect patient information in a March 2022 data breach. On May 9, the New Hampshire medical devices firm reported a breach to HHS that affected 81,244 patients. In their website notice, they noted that the types of personally identifiable…
Covid Contact-Tracing Contractor Settles Data Breach Lawsuit
Christopher Brown reports: Insight Global LLC will pay up to $5,000 each to victims of an April 2021 data breach involving Covid-19 contact-tracing data to compensate them for extraordinary out-of-pocket losses, in a settlement given final approval by a federal judge. Lisa Chapman filed the proposed class action against Insight and the Pennsylvania Department of…