Rebecca Whittaker reports: The death of a patient has been linked to a cyber-attack on the NHS last year. Cyber criminals attacked two major NHS trusts causing more than 1,000 cancer treatment delays, 2,000 outpatient appointments to be cancelled and more than 1,000 operations postponed. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said on Wednesday; a patient died during the cyber…
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ShinyHunters and team members arrested in France (2)
The following are machine-translated bits and pieces from a fuller news story by Jean-Michel Décugis and Damien Licata Caruso: The FBI’s arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” in March 2023 dealt a first blow to “Breached.” This American citizen was suspected of being the main manager of the platform, which had temporarily ceased operations….
Texas Enacts Liability Shield From Punitive Damages for Certain Small Businesses That Adopt Cybersecurity Programs
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Phillip A. Baggett of JacksonLewis write: On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 2610 into law, joining a growing number of states that aim to incentivize sound cybersecurity practices through legislative safe harbors. Modeled on laws in states like Ohio and Utah, the new Texas statute provides that certain businesses…
Dublin ETB fined €125,000 for data protection breaches
Cianan Brennan reports: Dublin’s Education and Training Board (CDETB) has been fined €125,000 by the Data Protection Commission after the personal details of 13,000 grant applicants were made available to “unauthorised persons”. The commission concluded after a six-year investigation that the ETB had breached GDPR in multiple ways by both failing to ensure sufficient security…
From $5,000 to $800,000: Days Apart, OCR Security Settlements Show Puzzling Math
More great reporting and analysis by Therese Defino of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA): A single incident that may have started as a personal vendetta or an extortion threat seven years ago has cost a Florida health care system $800,000, and comes on the heels of an unrelated breach suffered by a different hospital…
Liberty Township in Ohio has recovered its network after a ransomware attack
With so many cyberattacks being disclosed every day, a lof ot them never get reported on in the media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but some of them do contain sensitive personal information or could expose people — or the entity itself — to increased risk of future attacks. One such incident involved Liberty Township…