Izzy Kapnick reports: A three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit on Thursday upheld the largest-ever U.S. class action settlement over a consumer data breach, rejecting a bevy of challenges to the $380 million deal. Finalized in January 2020, the settlement compensates U.S. consumers whose personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the credit bureau Equifax. The…
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Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack
Tony Fay reports: Passengers going to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard via the Steamship Authority may have to deal with possible delays Wednesday, due to a ransomware attack. The ferry service posted on their official Twitter account Wednesday that the attack is affecting their operations, and that a team of IT professionals is currently working to…
ND: Data Security Breach at Ralph Engelstad Arena
Valley News Live reports: Hundreds of employees at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks are victims of a data security breach. In a message to employees Tuesday, Jody Hodgson, General Manager of the Ralph, says the incident happened in December 2020 and resulted in unauthorized access to some employee information. 318 employees are affected,…
Meat Is Latest Cyber Victim as Hackers Hit Top Supplier JBS
Marcy Nicholson, Fabiana Batista, and Sybilla Gross report: The world’s biggest meat supplier has become the latest casualty of a cybersecurity attack, posing a fresh threat to global food security already rattled by the Covid-19 pandemic. JBS SA shut its North American and Australian computer networks after an organized assault on Sunday on some of…
Au: BLK Sport reveals DarkSide attack
On May 26, BLK Sport disclosed that they had been attacked by DarkSide on April 21, 2021. Of note, the firm states that they have to assume that information may have been exfiltrated (because that’s how DarkSide normally operated), but they have been unable to actually determine the extent of any information theft. According to their…
INM seeking exploratory talks over legal claims following data breach
Arthur Beesley reports: Independent News & Media [INM] has signalled its interest in exploratory talks over legal claims lodged following the data breach scandal that rocked the group when businessman Denis O’Brien was its main shareholder. The claims centre on the searching of emails in 2014 that belonged to lawyers, senior journalists, former INM executives…