If you are charged criminally and don’t contest the charges and complete a program that results in the charges being dropped, can you then turn around later and sue law enforcement for false arrest or anything? I didn’t think you could. Paging lawyers to Aisle 4, please? Earlier this month, Joe Smith reported; A teenager…
Author: Dissent
Ask.FM user database with 350m user records has shown up for sale (UPDATED with Denial from Ask.FM)
“I think it’s probably one of the biggest breaches in a long time, can’t think of any bigger ones,” Pompompurin, the owner of Breached.to, wrote when asked about a new for-sale listing that appeared on his forum. A seller called “Data,” who Pompompurin says he will “vouch all day and night for” listed user data…
Update: SERV Behavioral Health System Issues Notice of Breach
On August 6, DataBreaches reported that the Hive ransomware team claimed to have attacked SERV Behavioral Health System and encrypted SERV’s files on May 26. The listing was added to Hive’s site on July 14. SERV did not respond to email inquiries from DataBreaches in July. Time passed, but Hive never added any “proof pack”…
Scoop: Tift Regional Medical Center victim of ransomware attack in July
DataBreaches has learned that Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia was the victim of a ransomware attack in July. Although the hospital was negotiating with the Hive ransomware group, negotiations recently broke off. According to communications shared exclusively with DataBreaches, the breach started on July 14 and ended on August 8. During that time, Hive…
Scoop: VSS Medical Technology’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
DataBreaches suspects that most readers would agree that getting hit by a ransomware gang qualifies your day as a very bad day. But how about getting hit by two different ransomware gangs on the same day? VSS Medical Technology and one of their companies, Sigmund Software, had what sounds like a terrible, horrible, no good,…
Indonesia finally passes personal data protection law
Eileen Yu reports: Indonesia finally has passed its personal data protection law that has been in discussions since 2016. The government believes the new Bill will be critical amidst a spate of data security breaches in the country. Indonesia’s House of Representatives earlier this month approved the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, paving the way…