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Law Firm Cyber Breach May Impact 23K, Including Financial Institution Client’s Customers

Posted on May 14, 2022 by Dissent

Justin Henry reports: The cyberattack of Philadelphia midsize law firm Stevens & Lee has grown to include 23,066 people whose personal information was potentially compromised, including customers of the firm’s financial institution clients, according to public records. The new figure, revealed in notices to authorities last month, is a sharp increase from the 344 potentially impacted individuals reported by…

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Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users’ Precise Locations

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stalk users, according to a researcher. […] In April, David Teather, a computer science student, analyzed…

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2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Dissent

Stefanie Ferrari of BakerHostetler writes: Vendor-caused incidents continued to surge in 2021. Nearly 20 percent of the total incidents we handled last year were caused by vendors, with more than half requiring notification. As in prior years, vendor incidents involved phishing schemes and inadvertent disclosures but primarily resulted from ransomware attacks on the vendors’ systems….

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Cyberattack at Opus Interactive knocks Ruby Receptionists offline, disrupting service for thousands

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Dissent

Mike Rogoway reports: Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week. One of Ruby’s online vendors was hit by a cyberattack that left the company unable to accept any incoming calls or online messages, CEO Kate…

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Boca Raton Attorney Allegedly Leaked Clients’ Confidential Files

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Dissent

Joshua Ceballos reports: All Priscilla Haring wanted from her divorce attorney, Richard Glenn Ozelie, was a divorce. But, according to her complaint filed in Broward civil court in March, what she got instead was scores of confidential files belonging to “a minimum of 96 individuals”  — a potentially huge breach of ethics by her erstwhile attorney. Read more…

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Ontario Cannabis Store confirms data leak, Ontario Provincial Police opens investigation

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Dissent

David Brown reports: OCS confirms that confidential store sales data from the provincial cannabis distributor was leaked to the public.  Following reports online from cannabis retailers in Ontario in April, the OCS [Ontario Cannabis Store] sent out a letter to retailers and licensed producers confirming that the data leak occurred without the OCS’ permission. Although…

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