Eileen Yu reports: Indonesia finally has passed its personal data protection law that has been in discussions since 2016. The government believes the new Bill will be critical amidst a spate of data security breaches in the country. Indonesia’s House of Representatives earlier this month approved the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, paving the way…
Category: Breach Incidents
NYSARC Columbia County Chapter discloses ransomware incident in July
From their press release, issued yesterday: On July 19, 2022, NYSARC Columbia County Chapter (“NYSARC”) detected irregular activity on their systems that was consistent with a typical ransomware attack. Out of an abundance of caution, NYSARC immediately began to remediate the situation including disconnecting systems, engaging data security and privacy experts, contacting law enforcement, and simultaneously beginning…
NY: Suffolk County struggles to recover from BlackCat ransomware attack
Suffolk County on Long Island joined the ranks of those hit by a ransomware attack, and the results and impact are not surprising. One headline on September 13 somewhat said it all: “County IT systems crippled, with websites, email down, five days after discovery of cyberattack.” By yesterday, county officials were working to send out…
Ocean City therapist used patients’ credit cards for psychic readings
Lynda Cohen reports: An Ocean City therapist who used dozens of clients’ credit cards to pay for thousands in psychic readings was admitted into pretrial intervention last month, BreakingAC has learned. Ashley Crooks, 32, was charged with theft by deception and unlawful use of credit cards after racking up $40,000 in charges over two months…
NY: Empress EMS hit by Hive ransomware
On September 9, Empress EMS in New York contacted HHS to report an incident that affected 318,558 patients. According to a notice on their website, an unauthorized individual gained access to their system on May 26 and copied what they describe as a “small subset of files” on July 13. On July 14, Empress discovered…
Singapore corporations making progress in preventing cyberattacks
It was a back-handed compliment of sorts: experienced hackers telling DataBreaches that it had gotten noticeably harder for them to successfully attack big corporations in Singapore. “The most difficult country to attack now, are Singapore companies,” they told DataBreaches in a chat. “A lot has changed since 3 years ago. It is hard to even…