Top Class Actions reports a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from a 2019 phishing incident that reportedly impacted or potentially impacted 68,039 patients: The Methodist Hospitals Inc. has agreed to pay up to $425,00 to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges it failed to adequately protect patients’ personal information from being exposed in a…
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CERT-MX suffers credibility #FAIL, accuses DataBreaches.net of disclosing unauthorized info.
Is Mexico’s CERT / Guardia Nacional suffering from heat exhaustion, bad AI, or political pressure? How else can we explain their bizarre attempt to take down this site? Long-time readers of this site know that over the past 16 years or so that I have been blogging, I have been the recipient of all kinds…
CentralSquare settles one Click2Gov data breach lawsuit
Between 2018 and the end of 2020, DataBreaches published dozens of news reports on municipal breaches involving CentralSquare’s ClicktoGov software. The software allows residents to pay utility bills or other municipal bills online. Now Top Class Actions reports that CentralSquare has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle litigation by some consumers. Consumers whose credit…
Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak
Simon Sharwood reports: An Indian flight booking website majority-owned by US retail colossus Walmart has experienced a data breach, but is saying very little about what happened or the risks to customers. News of the breach emerged on Monday, when customers received a message depicted in the tweet below….. Read more at The Register. Once…
Over 670k cyber attack cases in India this year so far: Centre
Hindustan Times reports: Over 670,000 cases related to cyber security were reported in India till June this year, Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Mishra also said that over three million such cases were reported in the country since 2019 till last month. In a written reply to a question in…
Romanian National Known As “Virus” Extradited For Operating “Bulletproof Hosting” Service That Facilitated The Distribution Of Destructive Malware
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that MIHAI IONUT PAUNESCU, a/k/a “Virus,” a dual Romanian and Latvian national, was extradited from Colombia for allegedly running a…