Adam Sage reports: An elite French police unit is reportedly negotiating with hackers demanding a seven-figure ransom after paralysing the computer system of a Paris region hospital. Le Parisien newspaper said the Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), the French military police unit that specialises in terrorism, hostage-taking and other such crimes, was involved in…
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Norwegian parliament fined
From the Norwegian Data Protection Authority: The Norwegian parliament – the Storting – had a data breach in late 2020. In January, the Data Protection Authority gave notice of a NOK 2 million fine for inadequate security. We have now considered the Storting’s comments and decided to maintain the fine. Norwegian parliament fined “Our conclusion…
LabMD gets another shot at defamation claim against ‘extortionate’ infosec biz
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: LabMD, the embattled and now defunct cancer-testing company, will get another chance at suing security firm Tiversa for defamation following an appeals court ruling. The testing laboratory has long alleged that: Tiversa illegally obtained a 1,178-page computer file containing confidential data on more than 9,000 LabMD patients back in 2008; lied…
Tulsa Tech hit by data breach
NewsOn6 reports: Tulsa Tech says someone stole data belonging to students who were enrolled in its classes between 1986 and 1999. According to the school, someone accessed the district’s systems in June and took files from the network, including the names and Social Security numbers of students. Read more at NewsOn6.
HC3 Threat Profile: Evil Corp
The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
TH: Major Cineplex and Major Development PCL hit by DESORDEN
DESORDEN has hit another big business in Thailand. This time it is the largest cinema chain and its subsidiary property development company. As DESORDEN informs DataBreaches, the Major Development PCL was breached during the first week of August and contacted by DESORDEN on August 17. “The management refused to respond and we attacked their main…