Dom DiFurio reports: In October, four companies collectively paid nearly $7 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly failing to properly inform investors of a cyberbreach affecting their companies, a liability American businesses have not previously faced. The companies were compromised in a cyberattack targeting their IT software provider in…
Category: Breach Incidents
Cyberespionage groups or cybercriminals? UAV and C-UAV vendors and buyers are increasingly targeted
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are increasingly deployed as part of military operations, there has also been an upsurge in counter-UAV (C-UAV) and counter-UAS technologies designed to detect and neutralize the threats they pose. Unsurprisingly, there has been an uptick in cyberespionage groups and cybercriminals attempting to acquire…
Memorial Hospital and Manor notifies 120,085 people of November ransomware attack
On November 3, 2024, WALB in Georgia reported that Memorial Hospital and Manor had been the victim of a ransomware attack on November 1 that they discovered on November 2. The hospital announced the incident on its Facebook page in a post that is no longer available. But Memorial Hospital and Manor did not appear…
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
Jennifer Bendery reports: Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to…
Humboldt Independent Practice Association’s breach notification leaves questions unanswered
On November 11, 2024, Humboldt Independent Practice Association (Humboldt IPA) submitted a breach report to HHS that used a placeholder of 500 for the number of patients affected. All we knew from HHS’s entry was that it was some kind of hacking or IT incident involving protected health information located in email. The California entity’s…
Attorney General James Releases Statement on DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information
When DataBreaches said, “Send in the lawyers” to sue Musk, she was thinking of personal injury lawyers who handle data breach litigation. But 14 state attorneys general may be even better. From NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general in…