TNN reports: Amid claims by a hackers’ forum that data of over three crore users of Indian Railways is on sale on the dark web, the railway ministry on Wednesday said that no such data breach happened in any of its systems or organisations. Read more at Times of India.
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Counsel for alleged member of ShinyHunters tries a legal “Hail Mary” play to block extradition
Since May 31, French national Sebastien Raoult has been detained in Morocco while the U.S. seeks his extradition to the U.S. to face charges he allegedly engaged in criminal activities with ShinyHunters. On December 26, the Moroccan court of cassation ruled that yes, he would be extradited. After exhausting all appeals to the French government…
Double trouble for JAKKS Pacific: double locked by two ransomware groups
JAKKS Pacific, Inc. describes itself as leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of toys and consumer products sold throughout the world. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Its proprietary brands include Fly Wheels®, Perfectly Cute®, ReDo Skateboard Co.®, X Power Dozer®, Disguise®, Weee-Do™ and a wide range of entertainment-inspired products. On December 8, JAKKS…
CommonSpirit Gets Restraining Order in Missing Patient Info Suit (UPDATED)
Holly Barker reports: CommonSpirit Health, one of the country’s largest nonprofit health systems, convinced a federal judge in Texas to order a medical technology vendor to return hundreds of thousands of medical records it was sent to archive. The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s order directs Emerge Clinical Solutions LLC to…
Updating Scripps Health ransomware incident: litigation settlement
Dorian Hargrove of CBS reports that Scripps Health has agreed to pay more than $3.5 million dollars to victims of a ransomware attack in 2021 that compromised the personal information of more than one million patients. More than 1 million patients? At the time, Scripps had reported that it was notifying 147,267 patients, and that…
MI: Hope College Hit with $5M Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Gary Stevens reports that alleged late disclosure of a data breach has led to a lawsuit. The Holland Sentinel is reporting in Wednesday’s editions that class-action status has been requested by plaintiff Jennie DeVries of Holland for the litigation filed at US District Court for Western Michigan on Monday. In the lawsuit, DeVries claimed that…