Last month we started seeing reports of data leaks or breaches involving state unemployment benefits application portals. We also started seeing reports of lawsuits filed as a result. Ben Szalinski reports that in Illinois, one of the nearly 32,500 applicants who had private information exposed said it was used to access her bank account. Briana…
Category: Breach Incidents
Why weren’t patients told that their data was dumped publicly?
On May 13, DataBreaches.net reported that Ako ransomware operators revealed that they had attacked North Shore Pain Management in Massachusetts. The threat actors announced the attack and dumped some of the practice’s files when the medical practice did not pay their ransom demand. The data dump, consisting of more than 4 GB of more than…
Minted hit with California data breach lawsuit after ShinyHunters hack
We anticipated a lot of lawsuits would be filed under California’s new law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as it imposes a data security duty on organizations. But will any of the complaints filed withstand early motions to dismiss? The CCPA requires complainants to give the organization 30 days to “cure” a violation and…
More than just health concern at coronavirus test sites: Are you exposing your personal information to security risks?
I fear that numbers on privacy breaches and data breaches stemming from COVID19 or involving COVID19 data are going to be staggering this year. Karina Elwood and Cindy Krischer Goodman report: When Elizabeth Spinelli arrived at Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park for a coronavirus test, a nurse handed her a form to write her name, address,…
Law-enforcement investigating possible leak of data of Armenia’s coronavirus patients
Siranush Ghazanchyan of Public Radio of Armenia reports that Armenian law enforcement is investigating reports on leaked data of coronavirus patients and their contacts. Information security and media expert Samvel Martirosyan said earlier that Azerbaijani hackers had published data of about 3,500 Armenian citizens (people infected with Covid-19 and their contacts). Like many countries, Armenia…
Russia says Germany has not provided any evidence of Bundestag hack
Earlier this week, I linked to an item stating that Germany is urging its fellow European Union governments to impose the bloc’s first-ever sanctions for hacking. The incident involved Dmitri Badin, a Russian suspect in the 2015 cyberattack on the German parliament. Catalin Cimpanu subsequently reported: Russian officials said this week that German authorities have…