Alex Kennedy reports a settlement in a case previously covered on this site back in 2012-2014: An out-of-court settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit involving Western Health that dates back more than a decade. The lawsuit was launched in August 2012, alleging that the health authority failed to protect the personal information of patients and…
Author: Dissent
Meta settles lawsuit for ‘significant’ sum against businesses scraping Facebook and Instagram data
Sarah Perez and Zack Whittaker report: Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations, which had seen them gathering data from Facebook and Instagram users for marketing intelligence purposes, according to the original complaint filed in October 2020. The companies named in the suit, Israeli-based BrandTotal…
Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus
Byron Kaye and Renju Jose report: Australia’s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd (TLS.AX) said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a disclosure that comes two weeks after its main rival Optus was left reeling by a massive cyberattack. Telstra, which has 18.8 million customer accounts equivalent to three-quarters of Australia’s…
“CISA wasted our time, we waste CISA reputation” — Vice Society
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) experienced a ransomware attack. Although their initial disclosure did not name the ransomware group involved, CISA issued an alert on September 6 about Vice Society attacking the education sector. Two days later, Vice Society acknowledged responsibility for the attack on LAUSD. LAUSD decided…
Why won’t they tell you that your data were leaked? Why doesn’t the government make them tell you?
For the past few years, DataBreaches has called out victims of cyberattacks who do not fully disclose how bad a breach was. Weasel words such as something “may have” happened when a victim knows damned well that it wasn’t just “may have” but did happen are just one example. Another example involves victims who claim…
Landmark U.S.-UK Data Access Agreement Enters into Force
The Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Access to Electronic Data for the Purpose of Countering Serious Crime (“Data Access Agreement” or “Agreement”) entered into force today. The Agreement is authorized by the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use…