Evan Dyer reports: The Conservative Party has written to Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne asking him to speed up his investigation of a federal government data breach that exposed the identities of hundreds of Afghans seeking Canada’s help to escape from the Taliban in October 2021. Dufresne announced on November 15 of last year that his…
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A confusing data dump from Vice Society
Attacking entities that try to save lives or provide health care seems despicable to most people—and attacking a hospice? That may seem especially vile. Vice Society recently added two victims to their dedicated leak site: BSA Hospice of the Southwest and Family Medicine Centers/FMC Clinics. Both are Texas entities. But were both actually attacked by…
San Diego American Indian Health Center: over 27,000 people are affected by data theft
Marco A. De Felice reports: 27,367 people, including patients and healthcare / administrative staff, were affected by the theft of sensitive data after the ransomware-type cyber attack last May 5 at the San Diego American Indian Health Center (“SDAIHC”) in the state of California. Recall that, among the people involved in the theft of their sensitive data, there…
New ‘Donut Leaks’ extortion gang linked to recent ransomware attacks
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new data extortion group named ‘Donut Leaks’ is linked to recent cyberattacks, including those on Greek natural gas company DESFA, UK architectural firm Sheppard Robson, and multinational construction company Sando. […] Strangely, the data for these victims have now appeared on the data leak site for a previously unknown extortion gang…
ParkMobile Can’t Escape Data Breach Class Action
Kathryn M. Rattigan of Robinson + Cole has an update on litigation stemming from a breach disclosed in April 2021: The class action lawsuit will continue against ParkMobile LLC for a data breach that affected 21 million users of the parking app (Baker v. ParkMobile LLC).The ParkMobile app allows users to pay for parking without…
Ex-MLB pitcher and Ohio mayor Chuck Smith sentenced to 33 months in dark web credit card fraud
From major league pitcher to suburban mayor to Amazon driver to…. prison. Wow. Lukas Alpert reports: A former major league pitcher who later served two terms as the mayor of a Cleveland suburb, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for using stolen credit card info to buy gas. Charles E. Smith, Jr., 52,…