YLE reports: Helsinki District Court handed a three-month suspended sentence to the former CEO of a psychotherapy firm targeted in a major data breach. The court found the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, guilty of a data protection crime because he did not fulfil General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in terms of the pseudonymisation and…
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Real estate firm OrangeTee & Tie fined for data breach involving 250,000 customers and employees
CNA reports a follow-up to an attack by ALTDOS that was previously reported by DataBreaches: Real estate agency OrangeTee & Tie has been fined S$37,000 by Singapore’s privacy watchdog after the personal data of more than 250,000 customers and employees was compromised. Names, bank account numbers, property transaction amounts, as well as identity card numbers were…
No evidence found of Little Rock School District data use after ransomware incident
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been “viewed, used or misused.” However, that announcement — posted recently on the 21,000-student district’s website — also…
Two more school districts hit by ransomware: Pineland Schools, Uniondale Union Free School District
Two more school districts have shown up on dark web leak sites today. Pineland Schools Pineland Schools in Vineland, New Jersey, was added to LockBit’s site with some files as proof of claim. LockBit claims to have 64GB of data they will dump on April 18 (tomorrow). The screencaps provided as proof include an image…
LockBit ransomware gang appears to be targeting Macs for the first time
Michael Potuck reports: Over the last several years, LockBit has become one of the most powerful ransomware gangs. While it has focused on Windows, Linux, and virtual host machines, it looks like the group has developed its first ransomware for Macs. Discovered by MalwareHunterTeam (via Brett Callow), what seems to be the first ransomware build designed for macOS has surfaced…
Investigation underway into cyber attack affecting charities for sexual assault survivors
The Journal reports that a ransomware attack on a data management company in Northern Ireland affects data held by charities and non-profits, including several organizations working with sexual assault survivors. The PSNI has confirmed that it received a report of a cyber incident on 30 March and referred the case to specialist detectives in its…